Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 29
On going from the treasury, he warned the two sentinels, saying--
Who acts: treasure · What happens: go, warn, say · To what, where: treasury, two sentinels · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Travels of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (treasure), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 going | mark |
| 2 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 warned | advcl |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 treasury | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 treasury | det |
| 5 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 going | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 going | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 warned | nsubj |
| 8 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sentinels | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 sentinels | nummod |
| 11 | sentinels | sentinel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 warned | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saying | punct |
| 13 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 warned | conj |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 warned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | treasure not said here | the treasury | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from treasury=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | warn speech: warn | past | treasure | the two sentinels | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sentinel=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | treasure not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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