Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 118
He took a rope and an axe with him, went forth into the forest, and again bade those who were sent with him to wait outside.
Who acts: blow · What happens: take, go, send, wait · To what, where: rope, forest
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blow), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rope | det |
| 4 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 axe | cc |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 axe | det |
| 7 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rope | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 axe | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 12 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bade | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bade | cc |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 bade | advmod |
| 19 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 20 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 bade | nmod |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 sent | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 sent | aux:pass |
| 23 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 those | acl:relcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sent | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 wait | mark |
| 27 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 sent | advcl |
| 28 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 27 wait | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | blow | a rope and a axe with unicorn | bade those obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | blow not said here | the forest | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | send | past · passive | with blow | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | wait | to-infinitive | outside property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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