Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 18

The servant at once seized her by the neck, carried her to the kitchen, and said to the cook: ‘Here is a fine duck; pray, kill her.’

Who acts: servant, fine duck · What happens: seize, carry, say, be, pray, kill · To what, where: queen, kitchen, cook, fine duck · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, fine duck), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carried	nsubj
3	at	at	SCONJ	_	5 seized	mark
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 seized	advmod
5	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 servant	acl
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seized	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 neck	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 neck	det
9	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seized	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 servant	punct
11	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 carried	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 kitchen	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kitchen	det
15	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carried	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 duck	acl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 cook	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cook	det
21	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obl
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 Here	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 Here	punct
24	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 said	ccomp
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 duck	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 duck	det
27	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 duck	amod
28	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carried	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 pray	punct
30	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 carried	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 kill	punct
32	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 pray	conj
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 kill	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 pray	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 pray	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seize	past	the servant not said here	queen			by the neck; once property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	carry	past	the servant	queen		the kitchen		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to kitchen=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	a fine duck not said here		the cook			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to cook=Recipient
4	is a	present		a fine duck				tree rules
5	pray	infinitive	the servant not said here					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	kill	infinitive	the servant not said here	queen				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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