Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 97

And his father said, ‘Heaven be praised! we have found our dear child again’; and he told his wife not to use the scythe for fear she should hurt him.

Who acts: father, we, Heaven · What happens: say, praise, find, tell, not use, hurt · To what, where: Heaven, dear child, wife, scythe, father · 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: who acts (father, we, Heaven), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 praised	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 praised	punct
7	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 praised	nsubj:pass
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 praised	aux:pass
9	praised	praise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 said	ccomp
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 praised	punct
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 found	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 found	aux
13	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 praised	parataxis
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 child	nmod:poss
15	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 child	amod
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	obj
17	again	again	ADV	_	13 found	advmod
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	nsubj
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wife	nmod:poss
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 told	iobj
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 use	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 use	mark
27	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 told	ccomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 scythe	det
29	scythe	scythe	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 use	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 fear	case
31	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 use	obl
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 hurt	nsubj
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 hurt	aux
34	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 fear	acl:relcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 hurt	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	father's father					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	praise	infinitive · passive		Heaven				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	find	present · perfect	we	our dear child		again		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	past	father		father's wife			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic
5	not use not said to happen	to-infinitive		the scythe			for fear	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent scythe=Theme for fear=Eventuality
6	hurt	should	Heaven	father				vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient

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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