Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 45
When they were all assembled together, he said to the huntsman: ‘As you are so clever, you shall sit by me.’
Who acts: household, you · What happens: assemble, say, be, sit · To what, where: deer · 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 (household, you), 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 | 5 assembled | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 assembled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 assembled | aux:pass |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 assembled | advmod |
| 5 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | advcl |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 assembled | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 assembled | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 huntsman | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 huntsman | det |
| 12 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 sit | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 sit | punct |
| 15 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 clever | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 clever | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 clever | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 clever | advmod |
| 19 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sit | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 clever | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 sit | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 sit | aux |
| 23 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 sit | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 sit | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past · passive | deer | all, together property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | household | to the huntsman | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to huntsman=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | you | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sit | shall | you | by me | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by i=Location |
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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