Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 166
The father ordered an axe to be brought, and they cut down the tree, but found no one upon it.
Who acts: father, sons · What happens: order, bring, cut down, find · To what, where: axe, tree, one
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, sons), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 axe | det |
| 5 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 brought | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 brought | aux:pass |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 axe | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cut | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cut | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cut | nsubj |
| 12 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | parataxis |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 cut | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cut | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 found | cc |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cut | conj |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 one | det |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 one | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the father | a axe | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive · passive | the father not said here | a axe not said here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together» | ||||
| 3 | cut down | past | sons = son | the tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product | ||||
| 4 | find | past | sons = son not said here | no one | upon tree | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
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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