Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 95
The little tailor, not idle, gathered two pocketsful of stones, and with these climbed up the tree.
Who acts: little tailor · What happens: gather, climb up · To what, where: two pocketsful stones, these
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), 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 | 8 gathered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 idle | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 idle | advmod |
| 6 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tailor | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tailor | punct |
| 8 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 stones | nummod |
| 10 | pocketsful | pocketsful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stones | amod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 stones | case |
| 12 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gathered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 climbed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 climbed | cc |
| 15 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 17 climbed | mark |
| 16 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 climbed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | climbed | climb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 gathered | parataxis |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 climbed | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 climbed | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | the little tailor | two pocketsful stones | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | climb up | participle · passive | these | tree rules |
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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