Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 31
Then the judge sent out his officers to bring up the accused wherever they should find him; and he was soon caught and brought up to be tried.
Who acts: judge, officers · What happens: send out, bring up, accuse, find, catch, try · To what, where: officers, the, judge
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (judge, officers), 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 sent | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 judge | det |
| 3 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 sent | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 officers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sent | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 bring | mark |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 bring | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bring | obj |
| 12 | accused | accuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 the | acl |
| 13 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 find | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 find | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 find | aux |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 accused | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 find | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 caught | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 caught | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 caught | aux:pass |
| 22 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 caught | advmod |
| 23 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sent | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 brought | cc |
| 25 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 caught | conj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 brought | compound:prt |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 tried | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 tried | aux:pass |
| 29 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 brought | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send out | past | the judge | judge's officers | then | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent officer=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring up | to-infinitive | the judge not said here | the | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent the=Patient | ||||
| 3 | accuse | participle | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | find | should | officers = officer | judge | wherever property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 5 | catch | past · passive | judge | soon property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bring up | participle | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | try | to-infinitive · passive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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