Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 157
Then the youth took up an axe, and, splitting the anvil at one blow, wedged the old man's beard in it. "
Who acts: youth · What happens: take up, split, wedge · To what, where: axe, anvil, one blow, beard
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 (youth), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 took | compound:prt |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 axe | det |
| 7 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 splitting | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 splitting | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 splitting | punct |
| 11 | splitting | split | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 took | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 anvil | det |
| 13 | anvil | anvil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 splitting | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 blow | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 blow | nummod |
| 16 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 splitting | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wedged | punct |
| 18 | wedged | wedge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beard | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 man | case |
| 23 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wedged | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wedged | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | the youth | a axe | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | |||
| 2 | split | gerund | the youth not said here | the anvil | one blow | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anvil=Patient | |||
| 3 | wedge | past | the youth not said here | the old man's beard | anvil | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent beard=Theme in it=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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