Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 55
Ah, it is no other than that I must shoot you, for so has the King ordered me," said the Huntsman, with a deep sigh.
Who acts: sentence, I, King, Huntsman · What happens: be, shoot, have, order, say · To what, where: you, me · 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 (sentence, I, King, Huntsman), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 6 other | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 other | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 other | cop |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 other | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shoot | advcl |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 shoot | obl |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 shoot | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 shoot | aux |
| 11 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 said | ccomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 shoot | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 has | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 has | mark |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 has | advmod |
| 16 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 ordered | nsubj |
| 19 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 has | parataxis |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 ordered | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 has | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 has | punct |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Huntsman | det |
| 25 | Huntsman | Huntsman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 said | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 sigh | punct |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 sigh | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 sigh | det |
| 29 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 sigh | amod |
| 30 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Huntsman | appos |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | sentence | other property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shoot | must | I | you | than that | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | order | past | the King | me | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Huntsman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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