Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 59
Then the fox came, and said, ‘Pray kill me, and cut off my head and my feet.’
Who acts: fox, Pray · What happens: come, say, kill, cut off · To what, where: me, head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, Pray), 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 | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kill | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 kill | punct |
| 10 | Pray | Pray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 kill | nsubj |
| 11 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 kill | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cut | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cut | cc |
| 15 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 came | parataxis |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 cut | compound:prt |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cut | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 feet | cc |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 feet | nmod:poss |
| 21 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 head | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the fox | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the fox not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | kill | infinitive | Pray | me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cut off | participle | my head and my feet | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
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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