Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 34
She took him up and ran with loud outcries to the boy's father, and said to him, "Your son has brought a great misfortune on us; he has thrown my husband down and broken his bones.
Who acts: wife, boy · What happens: take up, run, say, bring, throw down, break · To what, where: boy, son, husband, bones · 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 (wife, boy), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ran | cc |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 outcries | case |
| 8 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 outcries | amod |
| 9 | outcries | outcry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ran | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 father | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 boy | case |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 brought | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 brought | punct |
| 22 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 brought | aux |
| 25 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 said | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 misfortune | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 misfortune | amod |
| 28 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brought | obj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 us | case |
| 30 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 misfortune | nmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 thrown | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 thrown | nsubj |
| 33 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 thrown | aux |
| 34 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 took | parataxis |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 husband | nmod:poss |
| 36 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 thrown | obj |
| 37 | down | down | ADV | _ | 34 thrown | advmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 broken | cc |
| 39 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 thrown | conj |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 bones | nmod:poss |
| 41 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 broken | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | wife | boy | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | run | past | wife not said here | with loud outcries; to the boy's father result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to father=Result | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | bring in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Your son | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination misfortune=Theme | |||||
| 5 | throw down in a quote | present · perfect | boy | my husband | down property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme | |||
| 6 | break in a quote | participle | boy not said here | boy's bones | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Patient |
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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