Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 97

For a long time the giant felt nothing, but at last he awoke, pushed his comrade, and said: ‘Why are you knocking me?’

Who acts: giant, tailor, you · What happens: feel, awake, push, say, knock · To what, where: nothing, last, comrade, me · 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 (giant, tailor, you), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 felt	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 felt	nsubj
7	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 felt	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pushed	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 pushed	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pushed	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 awoke	nsubj
14	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 last	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 last	punct
16	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 felt	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 comrade	nmod:poss
18	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pushed	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 felt	conj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 knocking	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 knocking	punct
24	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	27 knocking	advmod
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 knocking	aux
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 knocking	nsubj
27	knocking	knock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 said	ccomp
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 knocking	obj
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	27 knocking	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 knocking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	feel	past	the giant	nothing		time	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
2	awake	past	tailor	last not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location last=Theme
3	push	past	the giant not said here	tailor's comrade	last		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent comrade=Theme at last=Trajectory
4	say speech: assert	past	the giant not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	knock	present · progressive	you	me			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent i=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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