Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 62
But the Huntsman cried out, "He lives yet! for I could not find it in my heart to fulfil your commands"; and he told the King how it had happened.
Who acts: Huntsman, it, your · What happens: cry out, live, not find, fulfil, tell, happen · To what, where: arrival, heart, commands, King · 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 (Huntsman, it, your), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 cried | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Huntsman | det |
| 3 | Huntsman | Huntsman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 cried | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lives | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 lives | punct |
| 8 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lives | nsubj |
| 9 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cried | conj |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 lives | advmod |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 lives | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 find | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 find | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 find | advmod |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 lives | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 find | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heart | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 fulfil | mark |
| 22 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 heart | acl |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 commands | nmod:poss |
| 24 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fulfil | obj |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 commands | punct |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 told | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 told | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 told | nsubj |
| 29 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cried | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 King | det |
| 31 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 told | obj |
| 32 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 happened | advmod |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 happened | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 happened | aux |
| 35 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 told | ccomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | the Huntsman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | live in a quote | present | Huntsman | yet | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not find in a quote | could | the Huntsman = huntsman | arrival | my heart | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 4 | fulfil in a quote | to-infinitive | the Huntsman = huntsman not said here | your commands | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | Huntsman | the King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | happen | past · perfect | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | command in a quote | your | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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