Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 36
The huntsman, having observed all this, went and told the King what he had seen and heard, and he said, "On the morrow I will pursue him once again."
Who acts: huntsman, King · What happens: observe, go, tell, see, hear, say · To what, where: this, King, morrow · 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 (huntsman, King), 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 huntsman | det |
| 2 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 observed | punct |
| 4 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 observed | aux |
| 5 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 huntsman | acl:relcl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 this | det:predet |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 observed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 huntsman | punct |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 told | iobj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 seen | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 seen | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seen | aux |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 told | ccomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 heard | cc |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 seen | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | nsubj |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pursue | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 pursue | punct |
| 26 | On | on | ADP | _ | 28 morrow | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 morrow | det |
| 28 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pursue | obl |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 pursue | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 pursue | aux |
| 31 | pursue | pursue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 said | ccomp |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 pursue | obj |
| 33 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 31 pursue | advmod |
| 34 | again | again | ADV | _ | 31 pursue | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | gerund · perfect | the huntsman not said here | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the huntsman | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the huntsman not said here | the King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | hear | participle | King not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | pursue in a quote | future | King | King | the morrow | again | once property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme on morrow=Trajectory |
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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