Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 20
The other had no suspicions of his roguery: so they went out together, and as they were travelling along, the murderers rushed out upon him, bound him, and were going to hang him on a tree.
Who acts: other, brothers, murderers · What happens: have, go out, travel, rush out, go, hang · To what, where: suspicions, king, tree, roguery
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 (other, brothers, murderers), 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 other | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 suspicions | det |
| 5 | suspicions | suspicion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 roguery | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 roguery | nmod:poss |
| 8 | roguery | roguery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suspicions | nmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rushed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rushed | cc |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 travelling | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 travelling | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 travelling | aux |
| 20 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 rushed | advcl |
| 21 | along | along | ADV | _ | 20 travelling | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 travelling | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 murderers | det |
| 24 | murderers | murderer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 rushed | nsubj |
| 25 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 rushed | compound:prt |
| 27 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rushed | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 him | punct |
| 30 | bound | bound | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 going | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 going | cc |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 going | aux |
| 35 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 went | advcl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 hang | mark |
| 37 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 going | xcomp |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 hang | obj |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 tree | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 tree | det |
| 41 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hang | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the other | no suspicions of king's roguery | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suspicion=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go out | past | brothers = brother | bound king; out, together property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | travel | past · progressive | brothers = brother | along property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rush out | past | the murderers | upon king | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | go | past · progressive | brothers = brother not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | hang | to-infinitive | brothers = brother not said here | king | a tree | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on tree=Destination | |||
| 7 | suspect | king's roguery | nom suspicion «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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