Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 4
The two elder brothers would have pulled it down, in order to see how the poor ants in their fright would run about and carry off their eggs.
Who acts: poor ants, brother · What happens: pull down, see, run about, carry off, fright · To what, where: two elder brothers, eggs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Queen Bee. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor ants, brother), 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 | 4 brothers | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 brothers | nummod |
| 3 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brothers | amod |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 pulled | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 pulled | aux |
| 7 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pulled | obj |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 pulled | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 see | mark |
| 12 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 in | fixed |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 pulled | parataxis |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 run | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ants | det |
| 17 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ants | amod |
| 18 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 run | nsubj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 fright | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 fright | nmod:poss |
| 21 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ants | nmod |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 run | aux |
| 23 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 see | ccomp |
| 24 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 run | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 carry | cc |
| 26 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 run | conj |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 carry | compound:prt |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 29 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 carry | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull down | would · perfect · passive | the two elder brothers | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: subject=Theme it=Result | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | run about | would | the poor ants in brother's fright | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry off | infinitive | the poor ants in brother's fright not said here | brother's eggs | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fright | brother | nom fright «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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