Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 89

‘Oh, yes,’ he replied, ‘I will soon subdue the giants, and do not require the help of the hundred horsemen to do it; he who can hit seven with one blow has no need to be afraid of two.’

Who acts: One, I, one blow · What happens: reply, subdue, not require, do, hit, have · To what, where: giants, help, seven, need, hundred horsemen · 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 (One, I, one blow), 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 replied	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 replied	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	2 Oh	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 replied	nsubj
8	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 subdue	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 subdue	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 subdue	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 subdue	aux
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 subdue	advmod
14	subdue	subdue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 replied	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 giants	det
16	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 subdue	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 require	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 require	cc
19	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 require	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 require	advmod
21	require	require	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 subdue	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 help	det
23	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 require	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 horsemen	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 horsemen	det
26	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 horsemen	nummod
27	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 help	nmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 do	mark
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 require	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 do	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 hit	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 hit	nsubj
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 hit	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 hit	aux
35	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 replied	parataxis
36	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 hit	obj
37	with	with	SCONJ	_	40 has	mark
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 blow	nummod
39	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 has	nsubj
40	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 hit	advcl
41	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	42 need	det
42	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 has	obj
43	to	to	PART	_	45 afraid	mark
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 afraid	cop
45	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 need	acl
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 two	case
47	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 afraid	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	One			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	subdue	future	I	the giants	soon property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Patient
3	not require	infinitive · do-support		the help of the hundred horsemen		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme help=Precondition
4	do	to-infinitive		help		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
5	hit	can	One	seven		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme seven=Co-Theme
6	have	present	one blow	no need		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient
7	is	to-infinitive	one blow not said here	no need not said here	of two; afraid property	tree rules
8	help			the hundred horsemen		nom help «act transitive»: of=patient

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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