Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 113

Away he ran into the village to the parson, and told him the Evil One was in his field, rooting up the turnips. "

Who acts: man, Evil One · What happens: run, tell, be, root up · To what, where: village, man, field, turnips · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Evil One), 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	Away	away	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 village	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 village	det
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 parson	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 parson	det
9	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 One	det
15	Evil	Evil	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 One	compound
16	One	One	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 field	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 field	cop
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 field	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 field	nmod:poss
20	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rooting	punct
22	rooting	root	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 told	advcl
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 rooting	compound:prt
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 turnips	det
25	turnips	turnip	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 rooting	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	man				into the village result; to the parson; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into village=Result
2	tell speech: assert	past	man not said here		man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is	past	the Evil One			man's field		tree rules
4	root up	gerund	man not said here	the turnips				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent turnip=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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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