Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 127
He did not take the huntsmen with him into the forest, and they were well pleased that he did not, for the wild boar had several times received them in such a manner that they had no inclination to lie in wait for him.
Who acts: tailor, huntsmen, wild boar, several times · What happens: not take, be, not do, have, receive, lie · To what, where: huntsmen, forest, manner, inclination, wait
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 (tailor, huntsmen, wild boar, several times), 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 | 4 take | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 take | advmod |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 huntsmen | det |
| 6 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 huntsmen | nmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 forest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 forest | det |
| 11 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pleased | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pleased | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pleased | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 pleased | cop |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 pleased | advmod |
| 17 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 take | parataxis |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 did | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 did | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 pleased | advcl |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 did | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 had | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 boar | det |
| 25 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 boar | amod |
| 26 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | parataxis |
| 28 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 times | amod |
| 29 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 received | nsubj |
| 30 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 had | ccomp |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 received | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 manner | case |
| 33 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 manner | det:predet |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 manner | det |
| 35 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 received | obl |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 had | mark |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 had | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 received | advcl |
| 39 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 40 inclination | det |
| 40 | inclination | inclination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 had | obj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 lie | mark |
| 42 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 inclination | acl |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 wait | case |
| 44 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 lie | obl |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 him | case |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 wait | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | past · do-support | tailor | the huntsmen | the forest | with child | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent huntsman=Theme into forest=Destination | ||
| 2 | is | past | huntsmen = huntsman | pleased, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not do | past | tailor | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | past | the wild boar | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | receive | past | several times | huntsmen = huntsman | such manner | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in manner=Location | |||
| 6 | have | past | huntsmen = huntsman | no inclination | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inclination=Patient | ||||
| 7 | lie | to-infinitive | huntsmen = huntsman not said here | no inclination not said here | wait for tailor | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wait=Location |
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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