Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 52

Then the huntsman arose and said: ‘Gracious lord father she is alive still, and I am her son, and I was not carried away by wild beasts, but by that wretch the old cook, who tore me from her arms when she was asleep, and sprinkled her apron with the blood of a chicken.’

Who acts: huntsman, Gracious lord father, I, wild beasts, old cook, marshal · What happens: arise, say, be, not carry away, tore, sprinkle · To what, where: son, I, me, arms, apron · 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 (huntsman, Gracious lord father, I, wild beasts), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 arose	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 huntsman	det
3	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arose	nsubj
4	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arose	conj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 alive	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 alive	punct
9	Gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 father	amod
10	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 father	compound
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 alive	nsubj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 alive	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 alive	cop
14	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
15	still	still	ADV	_	14 alive	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 son	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 son	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 son	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 son	cop
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 son	nmod:poss
21	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arose	vocative
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 carried	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 carried	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 carried	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 carried	aux:pass
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 carried	advmod
27	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 arose	conj
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 carried	advmod
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 beasts	case
30	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 beasts	amod
31	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 carried	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 cook	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 cook	cc
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 wretch	case
35	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 wretch	det
36	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 cook	obl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 cook	det
38	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 cook	amod
39	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arose	parataxis
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 tore	punct
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 tore	nsubj
42	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 cook	parataxis
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 tore	obj
44	from	from	ADP	_	46 arms	case
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 arms	nmod:poss
46	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 tore	obl
47	when	when	SCONJ	_	50 asleep	mark
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 asleep	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 asleep	cop
50	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 tore	advcl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 sprinkled	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 sprinkled	cc
53	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arose	conj
54	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 apron	nmod:poss
55	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 sprinkled	obj
56	with	with	ADP	_	58 blood	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 blood	det
58	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 sprinkled	obl
59	of	of	ADP	_	61 chicken	case
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 chicken	det
61	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 blood	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 arose	punct
63	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 arose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arise	past	the huntsman			then		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the huntsman not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	Gracious lord father			still	alive property	tree rules
4	is a	present	I	marshal's son				tree rules
5	not carry away	past · passive	wild beasts	I			away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
6	tore	past	the old cook	me	marshal's arms			tree rules
7	is	past	marshal				asleep property	tree rules
8	sprinkle	past	the huntsman not said here	marshal's apron			with the blood of a chicken	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent apron=Destination with blood=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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