Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 53
Thereupon he took the dog with the golden collar, and said: ‘That is the wretch!’ and caused live coals to be brought, and these the dog was compelled to devour before the sight of all, until flames burst forth from its throat.
Who acts: huntsman, That, flames · What happens: take, say, be, cause, bring, compel · To what, where: dog, wretch, live coals, throat · 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, That, flames), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 collar | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 collar | det |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 collar | amod |
| 9 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 wretch | punct |
| 15 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 wretch | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 wretch | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wretch | det |
| 18 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 wretch | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 wretch | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 caused | cc |
| 22 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 23 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 coals | amod |
| 24 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 caused | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 brought | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 brought | aux:pass |
| 27 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 coals | acl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 compelled | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 compelled | cc |
| 30 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 32 dog | det |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 dog | det |
| 32 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 compelled | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 compelled | aux:pass |
| 34 | compelled | compel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 devour | mark |
| 36 | devour | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 compelled | xcomp |
| 37 | before | before | ADP | _ | 39 sight | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 sight | det |
| 39 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 devour | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 all | case |
| 41 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 sight | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 burst | punct |
| 43 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 45 burst | mark |
| 44 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 burst | nsubj |
| 45 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 compelled | conj |
| 46 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 45 burst | advmod |
| 47 | from | from | ADP | _ | 49 throat | case |
| 48 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 throat | nmod:poss |
| 49 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 burst | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | huntsman | the dog | with the golden collar; thereupon property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | huntsman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | That | the wretch | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cause | past | huntsman not said here | live coals | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition coal=Patient | ||||
| 5 | bring | to-infinitive · passive | huntsman not said here | live coals not said here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together» | ||||
| 6 | compel | past · passive | this dog | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 7 | devour | to-infinitive | before the sight of all | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | burst | present | flames | wretch's throat | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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