Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 28
The King and his huntsmen perceived the beautiful animal, and pursued him; but they could not catch him, and when they thought they certainly had him, he sprang away over the bushes, and got out of sight.
Who acts: King, huntsmen · What happens: perceive, pursue, not catch, think, have, spring away · To what, where: beautiful animal, King, bushes, sight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, huntsmen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 perceived | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 huntsmen | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 huntsmen | nmod:poss |
| 5 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 King | conj |
| 6 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 animal | det |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 animal | amod |
| 9 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 perceived | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pursued | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pursued | cc |
| 12 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 perceived | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pursued | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 catch | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 catch | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 catch | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 catch | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 catch | advmod |
| 19 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 perceived | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 catch | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 thought | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 thought | cc |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 thought | advmod |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 thought | nsubj |
| 25 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 catch | advcl |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 had | nsubj |
| 27 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 28 had | advmod |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 thought | ccomp |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 had | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sprang | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 sprang | nsubj |
| 32 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 perceived | conj |
| 33 | away | away | ADV | _ | 32 sprang | advmod |
| 34 | over | over | ADP | _ | 36 bushes | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 bushes | det |
| 36 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 sprang | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 got | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 got | cc |
| 39 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 perceived | parataxis |
| 40 | out | out | ADP | _ | 42 sight | case |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 sight | case |
| 42 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 got | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | the King and King's huntsmen | the beautiful animal | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | pursue | past | the King and King's huntsmen not said here | King | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not catch | could | huntsmen = huntsman | King | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | huntsmen = huntsman | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have | past | huntsmen = huntsman | King | certainly property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 6 | spring away | past | King | the bushes | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bush=Trajectory | |||
| 7 | get out | past | sight | tree rules |
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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