Grimms' Fairy Tales, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts, sentence 9
But Chanticleer was no coward, and returned the duck’s blows with his sharp spurs so fiercely that she soon began to cry out for mercy; which was only granted her upon condition that she would draw the carriage home for them.
Who acts: Chanticleer, joke, duck · What happens: be, return, begin, cry out, grant, draw · To what, where: coward, blows, carriage
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chanticleer, joke, duck), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 coward | cc |
| 2 | Chanticleer | Chanticleer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 coward | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 coward | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 coward | det |
| 5 | coward | coward | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 returned | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 returned | cc |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 coward | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 duck | det |
| 10 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blows | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 duck | case |
| 12 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 returned | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 spurs | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 spurs | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 spurs | amod |
| 16 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 blows | nmod |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 fiercely | advmod |
| 18 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 8 returned | advmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 began | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 began | nsubj |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 began | advmod |
| 22 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 returned | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 cry | mark |
| 24 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 began | xcomp |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 cry | compound:prt |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 mercy | case |
| 27 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cry | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 granted | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 granted | aux:pass |
| 31 | only | only | ADV | _ | 32 granted | advmod |
| 32 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 coward | parataxis |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 condition | nmod:poss |
| 34 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 35 condition | case |
| 35 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 granted | obj |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 draw | mark |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 draw | nsubj |
| 38 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 draw | aux |
| 39 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 condition | acl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 carriage | det |
| 41 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 draw | obj |
| 42 | home | home | ADV | _ | 39 draw | advmod |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 them | case |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 draw | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 coward | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Chanticleer | no coward | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | past | the duck's blows | with Chanticleer's sharp spurs; fiercely property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | joke | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | cry out speech: express | to-infinitive | joke not said here | for mercy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for mercy=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | grant | past · passive | no coward | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal condition=Theme | |||||
| 6 | draw | would | joke | the carriage | for spurs = spur; home property | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent carriage=Result for they=Beneficiary | |||
| 7 | blow | the duck | with Chanticleer's sharp spurs | nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl | |||||
| 8 | spur | Chanticleer | nom spur «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | condition | joke | nom condition «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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