Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 32

Then tell one of your slaughterers to cut off the head of the horse I rode upon, for it was very unruly, and plagued me sadly on the road."

Who acts: you, I, head · What happens: tell, cut off, ride, be, plague · To what, where: one, head, horse, me, road · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, head), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 tell	advmod
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 tell	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 slaughterers	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 slaughterers	nmod:poss
6	slaughterers	slaughterer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cut	mark
8	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tell	advcl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 cut	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 head	det
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cut	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 horse	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 horse	det
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 head	nmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 rode	nsubj
16	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 horse	acl:relcl
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 rode	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 unruly	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 unruly	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 unruly	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 unruly	cop
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 unruly	advmod
23	unruly	unruly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cut	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 plagued	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 plagued	cc
26	plagued	plague	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	ccomp
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 plagued	obj
28	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	26 plagued	advmod
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 road	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 road	det
31	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 plagued	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	one of your slaughterers		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic
2	cut off	to-infinitive	you not said here	the head of the horse				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
3	ride	past	I	the horse not said here				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
4	is	past	head				unruly property	tree rules
5	plague	past		me	the road		sadly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer

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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