Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 86
If the tailor conquered and killed these two giants, he would give him his only daughter to wife, and half of his kingdom as a dowry, likewise one hundred horsemen should go with him to assist him.
Who acts: tailor, hundred horsemen · What happens: conquer, kill, give, go, assist · To what, where: two giants, only daughter, king
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 (tailor, hundred horsemen), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 conquered | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tailor | det |
| 3 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 conquered | nsubj |
| 4 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 killed | cc |
| 6 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 conquered | conj |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 giants | det |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 giants | nummod |
| 9 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 killed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 conquered | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 give | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | aux |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 give | iobj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 daughter | amod |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 wife | mark |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 daughter | acl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 half | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 half | cc |
| 22 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 13 give | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 kingdom | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 25 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 half | nmod |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 dowry | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 dowry | det |
| 28 | dowry | dowry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 go | punct |
| 30 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 35 go | advmod |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 hundred | compound |
| 32 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 horsemen | nummod |
| 33 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 go | nsubj |
| 34 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 go | aux |
| 35 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 give | parataxis |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 go | obl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 assist | mark |
| 39 | assist | assist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 go | advcl |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 assist | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer a condition, not said to happen | past | the tailor | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | kill | past | the tailor not said here | this two giants | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | would | tailor | king's only daughter | king | as a dowry | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient daughter=Theme | ||
| 4 | go | should | hundred horsemen | with king; likewise property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | assist | to-infinitive | hundred horsemen not said here | king | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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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