Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 91

When he came to the outskirts of the forest, he said to his followers: ‘Just stay waiting here, I alone will soon finish off the giants.’

Who acts: tailor, I · What happens: come, say, stay, wait, finish off · To what, where: outskirts, giants · 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 (tailor, I), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 outskirts	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 outskirts	det
6	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 outskirts	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 followers	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 followers	nmod:poss
15	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 said	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 stay	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 stay	punct
18	Just	just	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 stay	aux
19	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
20	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 stay	xcomp
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 waiting	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 finish	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 finish	nsubj
24	alone	alone	ADV	_	27 finish	advmod
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 finish	aux
26	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 finish	advmod
27	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 stay	conj
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 finish	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 giants	det
30	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 finish	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 stay	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 stay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	tailor		the outskirts of the forest		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to outskirt=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	tailor			to tailor's followers	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to follower=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	stay						tree rules
4	wait	gerund			here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	finish off	future	I	the giants		alone, soon property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector giant=Eventuality

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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