Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 87

‘That would indeed be a fine thing for a man like me!’ thought the little tailor.

Who acts: That, fine thing · What happens: be, think · To what, where: fine thing, little tailor

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 (That, fine thing), 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 thing	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 thing	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	aux
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	8 thing	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 thing	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thought	nsubj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 man	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thing	nmod
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 man	nmod
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tailor	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tailor	amod
19	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thought	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	That	a fine thing				for a man like me; indeed property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	a fine thing	the little tailor					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tailor=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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