Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 18

When he reached home, he knew not upon whom to vent his rage and spite; and at length wicked thoughts came into his head, and he resolved to kill his brother.

Who acts: king, length · What happens: reach, not know, vent, come, resolve, kill · To what, where: rage, head, brother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, length), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 knew	advcl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 reached	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 knew	nsubj
7	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 knew	advmod
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 whom	case
10	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 vent	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 vent	mark
12	vent	vent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 knew	ccomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 rage	nmod:poss
14	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vent	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 spite	cc
16	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rage	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 length	case
20	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	nsubj
21	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 thoughts	amod
22	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 length	obj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 knew	parataxis
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 head	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 head	nmod:poss
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 resolved	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 resolved	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 resolved	nsubj
30	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 came	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 kill	mark
32	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 resolved	xcomp
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 brother	nmod:poss
34	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 kill	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	king			home property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not know	past	king				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	vent	to-infinitive		king's rage and spite			tree rules
4	come	past	length		king's head		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into head=Initial_Location
5	resolve	past	king				tree rules
6	kill	to-infinitive	king not said here	king's brother			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme
7	rage		king				nom rage «feeling intransitive»: 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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