Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 43
‘Ah,’ answered he, ‘let mercy take the place of justice, I only made up my mind to do it out of necessity.
Who acts: mercy, I, my · What happens: answer, let, take, make up, do, mind · To what, where: husband, place, mind, necessity · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mercy, I, my), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 answered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | ccomp |
| 10 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | nsubj |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 justice | case |
| 15 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 place | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 made | nsubj |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 made | advmod |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 made | compound:prt |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mind | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 made | advcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 do | obj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 necessity | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 necessity | case |
| 28 | necessity | necessity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 do | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | husband | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | mercy | the place of justice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make up | past | I | my mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | mind | necessity | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | mind | my | nom mind «cognition 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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