Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 31
The next morning the hunt was commenced again, and as soon as the little Fawn heard the horns and the tally-ho of the sportsmen he could not rest, and said, "Sister, dear, open the door; I must be off."
Who acts: little Fawn, King, Sister · What happens: commence off, hear, not rest, say, open · To what, where: hunt, horns, sportsmen, door · 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 (little Fawn, King, Sister), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 commenced | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hunt | det |
| 5 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 commenced | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 commenced | aux:pass |
| 7 | commenced | commence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 commenced | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 heard | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 heard | cc |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 soon | advmod |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 heard | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 heard | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Fawn | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Fawn | amod |
| 16 | Fawn | Fawn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 commenced | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 horns | det |
| 19 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 heard | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ho | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ho | det |
| 22 | tally | tally | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ho | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 tally | punct |
| 24 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 horns | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sportsmen | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sportsmen | det |
| 27 | sportsmen | sportsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ho | nmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 rest | nsubj |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 rest | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 rest | advmod |
| 31 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 sportsmen | acl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 said | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 said | cc |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 heard | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Sister | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 Sister | punct |
| 37 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 open | nsubj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 dear | punct |
| 39 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 Sister | amod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Sister | punct |
| 41 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 said | ccomp |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 door | det |
| 43 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 open | obj |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 off | punct |
| 45 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 off | nsubj |
| 46 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 off | aux |
| 47 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 48 off | cop |
| 48 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 commenced | compound:prt |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 commenced | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 commenced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commence off | past · passive | the hunt | again; morning | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | the little Fawn | the horns and the tally ho of the sportsmen | soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer horn=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | not rest | could | King | the sportsmen not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sportsman=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the little Fawn not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | open in a quote | infinitive | Sister | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
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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