Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 80
Then the parson himself was frightened; and thinking the cow was surely bewitched, told his man to kill her on the spot.
What happens: frighten, think, bewitch, tell, kill · To what, where: parson, cow, man, Scarcely, spot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 6 frightened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 parson | det |
| 3 | parson | parson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 3 parson | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | aux:pass |
| 6 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 told | cc |
| 9 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 told | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cow | det |
| 11 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bewitched | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 bewitched | aux:pass |
| 13 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 14 bewitched | advmod |
| 14 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 thinking | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thinking | punct |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 man | nmod:poss |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 told | iobj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 kill | mark |
| 20 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 told | xcomp |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 kill | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 spot | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 spot | det |
| 24 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kill | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | the parson parson | then | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | bewitch | past · passive | the cow | surely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | parson's man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | Scarcely | the spot | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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