Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 174

Said the father, full of joy, "Thank God, our dear child has found us again," and bade the woman take away her scythe, that Thumbling might not be hurt with it.

Who acts: father, dear child, bade · What happens: say, thank, find, take away, thumbl, not hurt · To what, where: God, us, scythe · 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 (father, dear child, bade), 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	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 father	det
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 full	punct
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Said	ccomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 joy	case
7	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 full	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Thank	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Thank	punct
10	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Said	ccomp
11	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Thank	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 found	punct
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 child	nmod:poss
14	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 child	amod
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	nsubj
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 found	aux
17	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 Thank	conj
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 found	iobj
19	again	again	ADV	_	17 found	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 found	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Thank	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 take	cc
23	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 take	nsubj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 woman	det
25	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 take	nsubj
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Said	conj
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 take	advmod
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 scythe	nmod:poss
29	scythe	scythe	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 take	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 hurt	punct
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 hurt	mark
32	Thumbling	thumbl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 hurt	nsubj:pass
33	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 hurt	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 hurt	advmod
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 hurt	aux:pass
36	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 take	advcl
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 hurt	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the father					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			God			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme
3	find in a quote	present · perfect	our dear child		us	again		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Topic
4	take away	infinitive	bade	woman's scythe			away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scythe=Theme
5	thumbl	gerund						tree rules
6	not hurt	might · passive					with bade	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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