Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 27
He listened, and heard an ant-king complain: ‘Why cannot folks, with their clumsy beasts, keep off our bodies?
Who acts: king, ant king, folks · What happens: listen, hear, complain, keep off · To what, where: ant king, bodies
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 (king, ant king, folks), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 listened | nsubj |
| 2 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 heard | cc |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 listened | parataxis |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 7 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 king | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ant | punct |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 10 | complain | complain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 king | acl:relcl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 keep | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 keep | punct |
| 13 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 keep | advmod |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 folks | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 folks | advmod |
| 16 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 keep | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 beasts | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 beasts | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 beasts | nmod:poss |
| 20 | clumsy | clumsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 beasts | amod |
| 21 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 folks | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 keep | punct |
| 23 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 heard | conj |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 keep | compound:prt |
| 25 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 26 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 keep | obj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | king | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | a ant king | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | complain speech: other | present | a ant king not said here | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | keep off | infinitive | folks and folks's clumsy beasts | our bodies | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=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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