Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 101
He looked on quietly for some time, but at last, getting angry, he took up his knife and called out, "Away with you, you vagabonds!" and chased them about until a part ran off, and the rest he killed and threw into the pond.
Who acts: cold, you, part, rest · What happens: look on, get, take up, call out, vagabond, chase · To what, where: last, knife, vagabonds, pond · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cold, you, part, rest), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 looked | compound:prt |
| 4 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 getting | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 getting | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 getting | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 last | punct |
| 13 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 looked | conj |
| 14 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 getting | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 took | compound:prt |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 knife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 called | cc |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 took | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 called | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Away | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Away | punct |
| 26 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 17 took | advmod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 took | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 vagabonds | punct |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 vagabonds | nsubj |
| 31 | vagabonds | vagabond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 took | obj |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 31 vagabonds | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 vagabonds | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 chased | cc |
| 35 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 took | conj |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 chased | obj |
| 37 | about | about | ADV | _ | 35 chased | advmod |
| 38 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 41 ran | mark |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 part | det |
| 40 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ran | nsubj |
| 41 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 chased | advcl |
| 42 | off | off | ADP | _ | 41 ran | compound:prt |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 killed | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 killed | cc |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 rest | det |
| 46 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 killed | nsubj |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 killed | nsubj |
| 48 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 took | conj |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 threw | cc |
| 50 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 killed | conj |
| 51 | into | into | ADP | _ | 53 pond | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 pond | det |
| 53 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 threw | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look on | past | cold | time | quietly property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | get | gerund | cold not said here | last | angry property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | take up | past | cold | cold's knife | with you; away property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | |||
| 4 | call out speech: express | participle | cold not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | vagabond in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | chase | past | cold not said here | vagabonds = vagabond | about property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 7 | run off | past | a part | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | kill | past | the rest | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | throw | past | the rest not said here | into the pond result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into pond=Result |
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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