Grimms' Fairy Tales, 2. How Chanticleer and Partlet Went to Visit Mr Korbes, sentence 12
Then he was very angry, and went without his supper to bed; but when he laid his head on the pillow, the pin ran into his cheek: at this he became quite furious, and, jumping up, would have run out of the house; but when he came to the door, the millstone fell down on his head, and killed him on the spot.
Who acts: egg, pin, millstone · What happens: be, go, lay, run, become, jump up · To what, where: bed, head, pillow, cheek, this, house
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 2. How Chanticleer and Partlet Went to Visit Mr Korbes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (egg, pin, millstone), 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 | 5 angry | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | conj |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 supper | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 supper | nmod:poss |
| 11 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 ran | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 ran | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 laid | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 laid | nsubj |
| 18 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 ran | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 laid | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 pillow | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 pillow | det |
| 23 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 laid | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 laid | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 pin | det |
| 26 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ran | nsubj |
| 27 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | conj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 cheek | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 30 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ran | obl |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 became | punct |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 this | case |
| 33 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 became | obl |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 became | nsubj |
| 35 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 ran | parataxis |
| 36 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 37 furious | advmod |
| 37 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 became | xcomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 run | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 run | cc |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 jumping | punct |
| 41 | jumping | jump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 46 run | advcl |
| 42 | up | up | ADP | _ | 41 jumping | compound:prt |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 jumping | punct |
| 44 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 run | aux |
| 45 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 run | aux |
| 46 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 became | conj |
| 47 | out | out | ADP | _ | 50 house | case |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 house | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 house | det |
| 50 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 run | obl |
| 51 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 62 fell | punct |
| 52 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 62 fell | cc |
| 53 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 55 came | advmod |
| 54 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 came | nsubj |
| 55 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 62 fell | advcl |
| 56 | to | to | ADP | _ | 58 door | case |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 58 door | det |
| 58 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 came | obl |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 came | punct |
| 60 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 millstone | det |
| 61 | millstone | millstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 fell | nsubj |
| 62 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | parataxis |
| 63 | down | down | ADV | _ | 62 fell | advmod |
| 64 | on | on | ADP | _ | 66 head | case |
| 65 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 66 head | nmod:poss |
| 66 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 fell | obl |
| 67 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 69 killed | punct |
| 68 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 69 killed | cc |
| 69 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 62 fell | conj |
| 70 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 69 killed | obj |
| 71 | on | on | ADP | _ | 73 spot | case |
| 72 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 73 spot | det |
| 73 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 69 killed | obl |
| 74 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | egg | then | angry property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | past | egg not said here | bed | without egg's supper | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | lay | past | egg | egg's head | the pillow | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on pillow=Destination | |||
| 4 | run | past | the pin | into egg's cheek result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into cheek=Result | ||||
| 5 | become | past | egg | this | furious property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 6 | jump up | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | run | would · perfect | egg not said here | the house | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out house=Trajectory | ||||
| 8 | come | past | egg | the door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location | ||||
| 9 | fall down | past | the millstone | egg's head | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=Location | |||
| 10 | kill | past | the millstone not said here | egg | the spot | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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