Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 156
Then the pastor himself was alarmed, and thought that an evil spirit had gone into the cow, and ordered her to be killed.
Who acts: evil spirit · What happens: alarm, think, go, order, kill · To what, where: pastor, spirit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evil spirit), 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 | 6 alarmed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pastor | det |
| 3 | pastor | pastor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 6 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thought | cc |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 alarmed | advcl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 gone | mark |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 spirit | det |
| 12 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spirit | compound |
| 13 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gone | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gone | aux |
| 15 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 cow | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cow | det |
| 18 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gone | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ordered | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ordered | cc |
| 21 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | parataxis |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 ordered | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 killed | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 killed | aux:pass |
| 25 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 ordered | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 alarmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alarm | past · passive | the pastor | then | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | go | past · perfect | a evil spirit | into the cow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cow=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | order | past | spirit | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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