Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 74
Then he pulled him out of the river, and said to him, as he got upon the bank, ‘Your brothers have set watch to kill you, if they find you in the kingdom.’
Who acts: evil, bones · What happens: pull, say, get, set, kill, find · To what, where: fox, river, evil, set watch, brothers, you · 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 (evil, bones), 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 | 3 pulled | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pulled | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 river | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 river | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulled | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 got | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 got | nsubj |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | parataxis |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 bank | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bank | det |
| 20 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 got | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 watch | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 watch | punct |
| 23 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 24 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 set | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 set | aux |
| 26 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 watch | amod |
| 27 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 got | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 kill | mark |
| 29 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 watch | acl |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 kill | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 find | punct |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 find | mark |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 find | nsubj |
| 34 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 got | conj |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 find | obj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 kingdom | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 kingdom | det |
| 38 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 find | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulled | punct |
| 40 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | evil | fox | the river | then | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out river=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | evil not said here | evil | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | get | past | evil | set watch | upon the bank | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | set | present · perfect · passive | Your brothers | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||||
| 5 | kill | to-infinitive | evil not said here | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 6 | find a condition, not said to happen | present | bones = bone | you | the kingdom | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |
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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