Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 20

Thereupon he went away, and when he returned next day she had not done it, and said: ‘Why should I shed the blood of an innocent boy who has never harmed anyone?’

Who acts: cook, thought, I · What happens: go away, return, not do, say, shed, not harm · To what, where: life, blood, innocent boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook, thought, I), 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	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 returned	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 returned	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 returned	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 returned	nsubj
9	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
10	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 day	amod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 returned	obl:unmarked
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 done	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 done	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 done	advmod
15	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 day	acl:relcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 done	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 shed	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 shed	punct
22	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	25 shed	advmod
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 shed	aux
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 shed	nsubj
25	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 blood	det
27	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shed	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 boy	case
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 boy	det
30	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 boy	amod
31	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 blood	nmod
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 harmed	nsubj:pass
33	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 harmed	aux
34	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 harmed	advmod
35	harmed	harm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 boy	acl:relcl
36	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	35 harmed	obj
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go away	past	cook			away, thereupon property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	return	past	cook		day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not do	past · perfect	thought	life			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	shed	should	I	the blood of a innocent boy			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Source
6	not harm	present · perfect · passive		a innocent boy			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer anyone=Result

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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