Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 80

‘We are not prepared,’ said they, ‘to stay with a man who kills seven at one stroke.’

Who acts: We, soldiers, man · What happens: not be, say, stay, kill · To what, where: seven, one stroke · Speech: someone speaks here

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, soldiers, man), 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	_	5 prepared	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 prepared	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 prepared	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 prepared	advmod
5	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 prepared	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 prepared	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stay	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 stay	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 stay	mark
13	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 man	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stay	obl
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 kills	nsubj
18	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 man	acl:relcl
19	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 kills	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 stroke	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 stroke	nummod
22	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kills	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 stay	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 stay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present	We			prepared property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	soldiers = soldier				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stay	to-infinitive				with a man	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with man=Location
4	kill	present	a man	seven	one stroke		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=Theme

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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