Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 72

Then he climbed up again, and tried to hit the thieves on the head with them: but they only said, ‘It must be near morning, for the wind shakes the fir-apples down.’

Who acts: Scarcely, thieves, head, wind · What happens: climb up, try, hit, say, be, shake · To what, where: thieves, head, near morning, fir apples · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, thieves, head, wind), 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 climbed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 climbed	nsubj
3	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 climbed	compound:prt
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 climbed	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tried	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tried	cc
8	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 climbed	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 hit	mark
10	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tried	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thieves	det
12	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hit	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 head	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 head	det
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hit	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hit	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 said	advmod
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 climbed	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 morning	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 morning	punct
25	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 morning	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 morning	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 morning	cop
28	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 morning	amod
29	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 shakes	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 shakes	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wind	det
33	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 shakes	nsubj
34	shakes	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 said	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 apples	det
36	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 apples	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 fir	punct
38	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 shakes	obj
39	down	down	ADV	_	34 shakes	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 climbed	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb up	past	Scarcely			then; again		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try	past	Scarcely not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	hit not said to happen	to-infinitive	Scarcely not said here	the thieves	the head		with thieves = thief	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent thief=Patient with they=Instrument
4	say speech: assert	past	thieves = thief					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	must	head	near morning				tree rules
6	shake	present	the wind	the fir apples			down property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent apple=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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