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Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 50

The wicked stepmother, however, on whose account the children had wandered forth into the world, had supposed that long ago the Sister had been torn into pieces by the wild beasts, and the little Brother in his Fawn's shape hunted to death by the hunters.

Who acts: wild beasts, little Brother · What happens: wander, suppose, tear, hunt · To what, where: wicked stepmother, account, Sister, pieces

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 (wild beasts, little Brother), 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

detamodnsubjpunctadvmodpunctcasenmod:possobldetnsubj:passauxadvmodcasedetoblpunctauxconjmarkadvmodadvmoddetnsubj:passauxaux:passadvclcaseoblcasedetamodoblpunctccdetamodnsubjcasenmod:possnmod:posscasenmodparataxiscaseoblcasedetoblpunctrootTheDETwickedADJstepmotherNOUN,PUNCThoweverADV,PUNCTonADPwhosePRONaccountNOUNtheDETchildrenNOUNhadAUXwanderedVERBforthADVintoADPtheDETworldNOUN,PUNCThadAUXsupposedVERBthatSCONJlongADVagoADVtheDETSisterNOUNhadAUXbeenAUXtornVERBintoADPpiecesNOUNbyADPtheDETwildADJbeastsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETlittleADJBrotherPROPNinADPhisPRONFawnPROPN'sPARTshapeNOUNhuntedVERBtoADPdeathNOUNbyADPtheDEThuntersNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 stepmotherdet
2wickedwickedADJDegree=Pos3 stepmotheramod
3stepmotherstepmotherNOUNNumber=Sing13 wanderednsubj
4,,PUNCT_3 stepmotherpunct
5howeverhoweverADV_13 wanderedadvmod
6,,PUNCT_5 howeverpunct
7ononADP_9 accountcase
8whosewhosePRONPoss=Yes PronType=Rel9 accountnmod:poss
9accountaccountNOUNNumber=Sing13 wanderedobl
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 childrendet
11childrenchildNOUNNumber=Plur13 wanderednsubj:pass
12hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 wanderedaux
13wanderedwanderVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
14forthforthADV_13 wanderedadvmod
15intointoADP_17 worldcase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 worlddet
17worldworldNOUNNumber=Sing13 wanderedobl
18,,PUNCT_20 supposedpunct
19hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 supposedaux
20supposedsupposeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part13 wanderedconj
21thatthatSCONJ_28 tornmark
22longlongADVDegree=Pos23 agoadvmod
23agoagoADV_28 tornadvmod
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 Sisterdet
25SistersisterNOUNNumber=Sing28 tornnsubj:pass
26hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 tornaux
27beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part28 tornaux:pass
28torntearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass20 supposedadvcl
29intointoADP_30 piecescase
30piecespieceNOUNNumber=Plur28 tornobl
31bybyADP_34 beastscase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 beastsdet
33wildwildADJDegree=Pos34 beastsamod
34beastsbeastNOUNNumber=Plur28 tornobl
35,,PUNCT_45 huntedpunct
36andandCCONJ_45 huntedcc
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 Brotherdet
38littlelittleADJDegree=Pos39 Brotheramod
39BrotherBrotherPROPNNumber=Sing45 huntednsubj
40ininADP_44 shapecase
41hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs44 shapenmod:poss
42FawnFawnPROPNNumber=Sing44 shapenmod:poss
43's'sPART_42 Fawncase
44shapeshapeNOUNNumber=Sing39 Brothernmod
45huntedhuntVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 wanderedparataxis
46totoADP_47 deathcase
47deathdeathNOUNNumber=Sing45 huntedobl
48bybyADP_50 hunterscase
49thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art50 huntersdet
50huntershunterNOUNNumber=Plur45 huntedobl
51..PUNCT_13 wanderedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1wanderpast · perfect · passivethe wicked stepmotheraccountinto the world; forth, however propertyvn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2supposepast · perfectvn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3tearpast · perfect · passivethe wild beaststhe Sisterinto pieces result; ago propertyvn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Patient into piece=Result
4huntpastthe little Brother in King's shapeto death; by the huntersvn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by hunter=Location

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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