Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 16

They took him forth, but when they should have killed him, they could not do it for pity, and let him go, and they cut the eyes and tongue out of a deer that they might carry them to the old man as a token.

Who acts: people, father · What happens: take, kill, not do, let, go, cut · To what, where: father, people, forest, eyes, deer, old man

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 (people, father), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	forth	forth	ADV	_	2 took	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 killed	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 killed	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 killed	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 killed	nsubj:pass
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 killed	aux
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 killed	aux
11	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 took	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 killed	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 do	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 do	advmod
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 do	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 pity	case
20	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 do	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 let	cc
23	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 do	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 let	obj
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 let	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 cut	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 cut	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 cut	nsubj
29	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 eyes	det
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 cut	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 tongue	cc
33	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 eyes	conj
34	out	out	ADP	_	37 deer	case
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 deer	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 deer	det
37	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cut	obl
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 carry	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 carry	nsubj
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 carry	aux
41	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 cut	advcl
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 carry	obj
43	to	to	ADP	_	46 man	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 man	det
45	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 man	amod
46	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 carry	obl
47	as	as	ADP	_	49 token	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 token	det
49	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 carry	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	people		father		forth property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	kill	should · perfect · passive		people				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result
3	not do	could	people	forest			for pity	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	let	infinitive	people not said here	father				tree rules
5	go	infinitive	father not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	cut	past	people	the eyes and tongue		a deer		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset eye=Product
7	carry	might	people	eyes = eye	the old man		as a token	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to man=Destination

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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