Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 40

Then he ran after him with the knife still in his hand, crying: ‘Just one, just one,’ meaning that the guest should leave him just one chicken, and not take both.

Who acts: master, guest · What happens: run, cry, mean, leave, not take · To what, where: one, hand, master, both · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, guest), 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 ran	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 knife	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 knife	det
8	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
9	still	still	ADV	_	12 hand	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 hand	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hand	nmod:poss
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 crying	punct
14	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 ran	advcl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 one	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 one	punct
17	Just	just	ADV	_	18 one	advmod
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 ran	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 one	punct
20	just	just	ADV	_	21 one	advmod
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 one	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 meaning	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 meaning	punct
24	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 ran	advcl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 leave	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 guest	det
27	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 leave	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 leave	aux
29	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 meaning	ccomp
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 leave	obj
31	just	just	ADV	_	33 chicken	advmod
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 chicken	nummod
33	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 leave	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 take	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 take	cc
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 take	advmod
37	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	parataxis
38	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	37 take	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	master	one	master's hand	after two; then	with the knife	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Trajectory
2	cry speech: express	gerund	master not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mean	gerund	master not said here					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	leave	should	the guest	master			one chicken obl	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	not take	infinitive		both				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=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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