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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stepmother | det |
| 2 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stepmother | amod |
| 3 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wandered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stepmother | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 13 wandered | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 account | case |
| 8 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 9 account | nmod:poss |
| 9 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wandered | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 children | det |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wandered | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wandered | aux |
| 13 | wandered | wander | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 13 wandered | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 world | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wandered | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 supposed | punct |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 supposed | aux |
| 20 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 wandered | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 torn | mark |
| 22 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 ago | advmod |
| 23 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 28 torn | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Sister | det |
| 25 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 torn | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 torn | aux:pass |
| 28 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 supposed | advcl |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 pieces | case |
| 30 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 torn | obl |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 beasts | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 beasts | det |
| 33 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 beasts | amod |
| 34 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 torn | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 hunted | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 hunted | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Brother | det |
| 38 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 Brother | amod |
| 39 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 hunted | nsubj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 shape | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 shape | nmod:poss |
| 42 | Fawn | Fawn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 shape | nmod:poss |
| 43 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 42 Fawn | case |
| 44 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Brother | nmod |
| 45 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wandered | parataxis |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 death | case |
| 47 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 hunted | obl |
| 48 | by | by | ADP | _ | 50 hunters | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 hunters | det |
| 50 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 hunted | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past · perfect · passive | the wicked stepmother | account | into the world; forth, however property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | suppose | past · perfect | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | tear | past · perfect · passive | the wild beasts | the Sister | into pieces result; ago property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Patient into piece=Result | |||
| 4 | hunt | past | the little Brother in King's shape | to death; by the hunters | vn 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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