Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 90
The little tailor went forth, and the hundred horsemen followed him.
Who acts: little tailor, hundred horsemen · What happens: go, follow · To what, where: 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 (little 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tailor | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tailor | amod |
| 3 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 followed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 followed | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 horsemen | det |
| 9 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 horsemen | nummod |
| 10 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 followed | nsubj |
| 11 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 followed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the little tailor | forth property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | the hundred horsemen | tailor | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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