Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 10
When he came out, she said to him: ‘Listen, dearest Roland, we must fly in all haste; my stepmother wanted to kill me, but has struck her own child.
Who acts: sweetheart, woman, we, stepmother · What happens: come out, say, listen, fly, want, kill · To what, where: sweetheart, dearest, haste, me, own child · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sweetheart, woman, we, stepmother), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | advcl |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Listen | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Listen | punct |
| 12 | Listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dearest | punct |
| 14 | dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 Listen | obj |
| 15 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 dearest | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fly | punct |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 fly | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 fly | aux |
| 19 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Listen | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 haste | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 haste | det |
| 22 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fly | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 wanted | punct |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 25 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wanted | nsubj |
| 26 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Listen | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 kill | mark |
| 28 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 wanted | xcomp |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 kill | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 struck | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 struck | cc |
| 32 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 struck | aux |
| 33 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | conj |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 child | nmod:poss |
| 35 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 child | amod |
| 36 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 struck | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | sweetheart | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | woman | sweetheart | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | listen | infinitive | woman not said here | dearest | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fly | must | we | all haste | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in haste=Location | ||||
| 5 | want | past | my stepmother | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | my stepmother not said here | me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 7 | strike | present · perfect | woman not said here | woman's own child | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent child=Instrument |
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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