Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 170
When they saw that a wolf was inside, they ran away, and the husband fetched his axe, and the wife the scythe. "
Who acts: heavens, wolf, husband, wife · What happens: see, be, run away, fetch, scythe · To what, where: axe · 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 (heavens, wolf, husband, wife), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ran | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 inside | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wolf | det |
| 6 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 inside | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 inside | cop |
| 8 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ran | nsubj |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 ran | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fetched | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fetched | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 husband | det |
| 16 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fetched | nsubj |
| 17 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ran | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 axe | nmod:poss |
| 19 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fetched | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 scythe | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 scythe | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wife | det |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 scythe | nsubj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 scythe | det |
| 25 | scythe | scythe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 scythe | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 scythe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | heavens = heaven | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | a wolf | inside property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run away | past | heavens = heaven | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fetch | past | the husband | wolf's axe | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | ||||
| 5 | scythe | the wife | tree rules |
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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