Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 51
But the king replied: ‘She let my dear son be torn to pieces by wild beasts; I will not have her named.’
Who acts: king, marshal, wild beasts, I · What happens: reply, let, tear, not have, name · To what, where: dear son, pieces · 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 (king, marshal, wild beasts, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 replied | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 7 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 let | nsubj |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 replied | ccomp |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 son | amod |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 let | obj |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 torn | aux:pass |
| 13 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 let | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 pieces | case |
| 15 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 torn | obl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 beasts | case |
| 17 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 beasts | amod |
| 18 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 torn | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 have | advmod |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 named | nmod:poss |
| 25 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 have | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let | past | marshal | my dear son | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tear | infinitive · passive | wild beasts | pieces | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to piece=Destination | ||||
| 4 | not have | future | I | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | name | participle | I not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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