Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 8

‘Now, this jam shall be blessed by God,’ cried the little tailor, ‘and give me health and strength’; so he brought the bread out of the cupboard, cut himself a piece right across the loaf and spread the jam over it.

Who acts: God, little tailor, tailor · What happens: bless, cry, give, bring, cut, spread · To what, where: jam, little tailor, health, me, bread, cupboard

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 (God, little tailor, tailor), 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	_	8 blessed	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 blessed	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 jam	det
5	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blessed	nsubj:pass
6	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 blessed	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 blessed	aux:pass
8	blessed	bless	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 cried	advcl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 God	case
10	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 blessed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 blessed	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tailor	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tailor	amod
16	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cried	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
18	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 give	cc
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tailor	acl:relcl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 give	iobj
22	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 strength	cc
24	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 health	conj
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 strength	punct
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 brought	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 brought	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 brought	nsubj
29	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cried	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bread	det
31	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 brought	obj
32	out	out	ADP	_	35 cupboard	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 cupboard	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cupboard	det
35	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 brought	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 cut	punct
37	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 cried	parataxis
38	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 cut	obj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 piece	det
40	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cut	obj
41	right	right	ADV	_	44 loaf	advmod
42	across	across	ADP	_	44 loaf	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 loaf	det
44	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cut	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 spread	cc
46	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cried	conj
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 jam	det
48	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 spread	obj
49	over	over	ADP	_	50 it	case
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 spread	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	bless	shall · passive	God	this jam			now	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past		the little tailor				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tailor=Topic
3	give	infinitive	the little tailor not said here	health and strength	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient health=Theme
4	bring	past	tailor	the bread		the cupboard		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bread=Theme out cupboard=Initial_Location
5	cut	infinitive		tailor		the loaf		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary piece=Product
6	spread	past		the jam		loaf		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jam=Theme over it=Destination

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.

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