Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 96

When he was halfway up, he slipped down by a branch, until he sat just above the sleepers, and then let one stone after another fall on the breast of one of the giants.

Who acts: tailor · What happens: be, slip down, sit, let · To what, where: sleepers, one stone

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), 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	5 up	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 up	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 up	cop
4	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	5 up	advmod
5	up	up	ADV	_	8 slipped	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 slipped	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 slipped	nsubj
8	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 slipped	compound:prt
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 branch	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 branch	det
12	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slipped	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct
14	until	until	SCONJ	_	16 sat	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sat	nsubj
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 slipped	conj
17	just	just	ADV	_	20 sleepers	advmod
18	above	above	ADP	_	20 sleepers	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sleepers	det
20	sleepers	sleeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sat	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 let	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 let	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 let	advmod
24	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 slipped	parataxis
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 stone	nummod
26	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 let	obj
27	after	after	ADP	_	29 fall	case
28	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	29 fall	det
29	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 let	obl
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 breast	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 breast	det
32	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fall	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 one	case
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 breast	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 giants	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 giants	det
37	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 one	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 slipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	tailor			halfway, up property	tree rules
2	slip down	past	tailor			by a branch	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	sit	past	tailor	the sleepers			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sleeper=Theme
4	let	infinitive		one stone	after another fall on the breast of one of the giants; then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=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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