Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 15
Then the father fell into the most furious anger, sprang up, called his people thither, and said: ‘This man is no longer my son, I drive him forth, and command you to take him out into the forest, and kill him.’
Who acts: father, man, I · What happens: fall, sprang up, call, say, be, drive · To what, where: furious anger, people, son, father, you, forest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Languages. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, man, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 fell | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 father | det |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 anger | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 anger | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 furious | advmod |
| 8 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 anger | amod |
| 9 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sprang | punct |
| 11 | sprang | sprang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fell | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 sprang | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sprang | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 people | nmod:poss |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 called | obj |
| 17 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 14 called | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 son | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 son | punct |
| 23 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 man | det |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 son | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 son | cop |
| 26 | no | no | ADV | _ | 27 longer | advmod |
| 27 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 29 son | advmod |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 son | nmod:poss |
| 29 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | ccomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 drive | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 drive | nsubj |
| 32 | drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 son | parataxis |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 drive | obj |
| 34 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 32 drive | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 command | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 command | cc |
| 37 | command | command | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 32 drive | conj |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 command | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 take | mark |
| 40 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 command | xcomp |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 take | obj |
| 42 | out | out | ADP | _ | 40 take | compound:prt |
| 43 | into | into | ADP | _ | 45 forest | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 forest | det |
| 45 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 take | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 kill | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 kill | cc |
| 48 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | parataxis |
| 49 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 kill | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 48 kill | punct |
| 51 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 48 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the father | then | into the furious anger result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into anger=Result | |||
| 2 | sprang up | infinitive | the father not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | call | participle | the father not said here | father's people | thither property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the father not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | this man | my son | long property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | drive | present | I | father | forth property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 7 | command | infinitive | I not said here | you | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 8 | take out not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | father | the forest | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 9 | kill | infinitive | father | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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