Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 75
So he left her by herself; and though he thought it most likely that the wild beasts would tear her in pieces, he felt as if a great weight were taken off his heart when he had made up his mind not to kill her but to leave her to her fate, with the chance of someone finding and saving her.
Who acts: sweetheart, wild beasts, mind, SNOWDROP, someone · What happens: leave, think, tear, feel, take off, make up · To what, where: SNOWDROP, life, pieces, great weight, mind · 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, wild beasts, mind, SNOWDROP), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 left | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 herself | case |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 left | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thought | cc |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 thought | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | obj |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 likely | advmod |
| 14 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 11 thought | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 tear | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 beasts | det |
| 17 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 beasts | amod |
| 18 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tear | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 tear | aux |
| 20 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 tear | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 pieces | case |
| 23 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tear | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 felt | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 felt | nsubj |
| 26 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 taken | mark |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 taken | mark |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 weight | det |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 weight | amod |
| 31 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 taken | aux:pass |
| 33 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 felt | ccomp |
| 34 | off | off | ADP | _ | 33 taken | compound:prt |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 heart | nmod:poss |
| 36 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 taken | obj |
| 37 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 40 made | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 made | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 made | aux |
| 40 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 felt | advcl |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 made | compound:prt |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 mind | nmod:poss |
| 43 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 made | obj |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 kill | advmod |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 kill | mark |
| 46 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 made | xcomp |
| 47 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 kill | obj |
| 48 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 50 leave | cc |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 leave | mark |
| 50 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 kill | conj |
| 51 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 leave | obj |
| 52 | to | to | ADP | _ | 54 fate | case |
| 53 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 fate | nmod:poss |
| 54 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 leave | obl |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 chance | punct |
| 56 | with | with | ADP | _ | 58 chance | case |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 58 chance | det |
| 58 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 leave | obl |
| 59 | of | of | ADP | _ | 60 someone | case |
| 60 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 58 chance | nmod |
| 61 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 60 someone | acl |
| 62 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 63 saving | cc |
| 63 | saving | save | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 61 finding | conj |
| 64 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 63 saving | obj |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | sweetheart | SNOWDROP | by SNOWDROP | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme by herself=Location | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | sweetheart | life | likely property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 3 | tear | would | the wild beasts | SNOWDROP | pieces | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location she=Theme | |||
| 4 | feel | past | sweetheart | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | take off a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | a great weight | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | make up | past · perfect | sweetheart | sweetheart's mind | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not kill | to-infinitive | sweetheart's mind not said here | SNOWDROP | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 8 | leave | to-infinitive | sweetheart's mind not said here | SNOWDROP | to SNOWDROP's fate; with the chance of someone | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Recipient with chance=Theme | |||
| 9 | find | gerund | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 10 | save | gerund | SNOWDROP | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||||
| 11 | mind | sweetheart | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 12 | fate | SNOWDROP | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 13 | chance | someone | nom chance «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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