Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 78

‘If we quarrel with him, and he strikes about him, seven of us will fall at every blow; not one of us can stand against him.’

Who acts: we, tailor, seven, one · What happens: quarrel, strike, fall, not stand · To what, where: blow

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, tailor, seven, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 quarrel	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 quarrel	mark
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 quarrel	nsubj
4	quarrel	quarrel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 quarrel	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 strikes	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 strikes	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 strikes	nsubj
10	strikes	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 quarrel	parataxis
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 strikes	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seven	punct
14	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 fall	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 us	case
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 seven	nmod
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 fall	aux
18	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 strikes	ccomp
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 blow	case
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 blow	det
21	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fall	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 stand	punct
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 stand	advmod
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 stand	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 us	case
26	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 one	nmod
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 stand	aux
28	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 quarrel	conj
29	against	against	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 stand	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 quarrel	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 quarrel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	quarrel	present	we		with tailor	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent
2	strike	present	tailor		about king	tree rules
3	fall	future	seven of us	every blow		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at blow=Location
4	not stand	can	one of us		against tailor	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against he=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/78/