Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 73
Then Fred slipped down on the other side, and collected stones, with which he climbed the tree again, to beat the thieves with.
Who acts: Fred, goodness · What happens: slip down, collect, climb, beat · To what, where: other side, stones, tree, thieves
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 (Fred, goodness), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 slipped | advmod |
| 2 | Fred | Fred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 slipped | nsubj |
| 3 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 slipped | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 side | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 side | amod |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slipped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 collected | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 collected | cc |
| 11 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slipped | conj |
| 12 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 collected | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 climbed | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 climbed | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 climbed | nsubj |
| 17 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slipped | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 climbed | obj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 climbed | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 beat | punct |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 beat | mark |
| 23 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 climbed | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 thieves | det |
| 25 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 beat | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 beat | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip down | past | Fred | the other side | then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | collect | past | Fred not said here | stones | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ||||
| 3 | climb | past | goodness | the tree | again | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | |||
| 4 | beat | to-infinitive | goodness not said here | the thieves | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thief=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: «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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