Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 56
Then the huntsman spoke further and said: ‘Father, will you see the maiden who brought me up so tenderly and who was afterwards to murder me, but did not do it, though her own life depended on it?’
Who acts: huntsman, you, maiden, own life · What happens: speak, say, see up, bring, be, not do · To what, where: maiden, me · 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, you, maiden, own life), 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 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 huntsman | det |
| 3 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 spoke | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 10 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 see | vocative |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Father | punct |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 maiden | det |
| 16 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 brought | nsubj |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | obj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 see | compound:prt |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 tenderly | advmod |
| 22 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 see | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 murder | cc |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 murder | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 murder | cop |
| 26 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 28 murder | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 murder | mark |
| 28 | murder | murder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 see | conj |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 murder | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 do | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 do | cc |
| 32 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 do | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 do | advmod |
| 34 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | parataxis |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 do | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 depended | punct |
| 37 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 41 depended | mark |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 life | nmod:poss |
| 39 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 life | amod |
| 40 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 depended | nsubj |
| 41 | depended | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 do | conj |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 it | case |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 depended | obl |
| 44 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the huntsman | then | far property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the huntsman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see up | future | you | the maiden | Father vocative; tenderly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | bring | past | the maiden | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 5 | is | past | afterwards, murder property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not do | past · do-support | maiden | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | depend | past | dog's own life | on maiden | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on it=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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