Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 36

Said he: ‘I am your dear son, whom the wild beasts were said to have torn from your arms; but I am alive still, and will soon set you free.’

Who acts: cook, I · What happens: say, be, tear, set · To what, where: dear son, wild beasts, arms, you · 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, 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	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Said	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 son	punct
4	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 son	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 son	nsubj
6	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 son	cop
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 son	nmod:poss
8	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 son	amod
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
11	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 said	obj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 beasts	det
13	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 beasts	amod
14	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 said	nsubj:pass
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	aux:pass
16	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 son	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	19 torn	mark
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 torn	aux
19	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 said	xcomp
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 arms	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 arms	nmod:poss
22	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 torn	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 alive	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 alive	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 alive	nsubj
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 alive	cop
27	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Said	ccomp
28	still	still	ADV	_	27 alive	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 set	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 set	cc
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 set	aux
32	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 set	advmod
33	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 alive	conj
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 set	obj
35	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 set	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Said	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	cook					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	I	your dear son				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past · passive		the wild beasts				tree rules
4	tear	to-infinitive · perfect			your arms			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from arm=Trajectory
5	is	present	I			still	alive property	tree rules
6	set	future	I not said here	you			free, soon property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient you=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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