Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 85

In a forest of his country lived two giants, who caused great mischief with their robbing, murdering, ravaging, and burning, and no one could approach them without putting himself in danger of death.

Who acts: two giants, people, one · What happens: live, cause, rob, murder, ravage, burn · To what, where: two giants, forest, great mischief, people, king, danger

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 (two giants, people, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 forest	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 forest	det
3	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 country	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 country	nmod:poss
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forest	nmod
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 giants	nummod
9	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lived	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 caused	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 caused	nsubj
12	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 giants	acl:relcl
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mischief	amod
14	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 caused	obj
15	with	with	SCONJ	_	17 robbing	mark
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 robbing	nsubj
17	robbing	rob	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 caused	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 murdering	punct
19	murdering	murder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 robbing	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ravaging	punct
21	ravaging	ravage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 murdering	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 burning	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 burning	cc
24	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 robbing	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 approach	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 approach	cc
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 approach	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 approach	aux
30	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 lived	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 approach	obj
32	without	without	SCONJ	_	33 putting	mark
33	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 approach	advcl
34	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 putting	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 danger	case
36	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 putting	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 death	case
38	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 danger	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	live	past		two giants	a forest of king's country	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme giant=Location
2	cause	past	two giants	great mischief		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition mischief=Patient
3	rob	gerund	people			vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	murder	gerund	people not said here			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	ravage	gerund	people not said here			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	burn	gerund	people not said here			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	approach	could	no one	people		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
8	put	gerund	no one not said here	king	danger of death	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in danger=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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