Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 42
Two hundred deer and more came running inside the circle at once, and the huntsmen shot them.
Who acts: hundred deer, huntsmen · What happens: come, run, shoot · To what, where: circle, deer
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 (hundred deer, huntsmen), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 deer | nummod |
| 3 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 more | cc |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 deer | conj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 came | advcl |
| 8 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 10 circle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 circle | det |
| 10 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 running | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 once | case |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 running | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shot | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 shot | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 huntsmen | det |
| 16 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shot | nsubj |
| 17 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | parataxis |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 shot | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | hundred deer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | gerund | hundred deer not said here | the circle | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside circle=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | shoot | past | the huntsmen | deer | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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