Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 92
"Then let it go in the hangman's name!" cried Fred, while it fell crashing through the branches.
Who acts: dew, Fred, hangman · What happens: let, go, cry, fall, crash, name · To what, where: dew, name, branches · 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 (dew, Fred, hangman), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cried | ccomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 name | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hangman | det |
| 8 | hangman | hangman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 name | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 hangman | case |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Fred | Fred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fell | punct |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 fell | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fell | nsubj |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cried | conj |
| 19 | crashing | crash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 fell | xcomp |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 branches | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 branches | det |
| 22 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 crashing | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | dew | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | dew not said here | the hangman's name | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in name=Location | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Fred | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | dew | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | crash | gerund | dew not said here | the branches | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through branch=Location | ||||
| 6 | name in a quote | the hangman | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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