Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 42
‘I dare not shoot at him,’ said the huntsman, ‘for I should kill the beautiful young lady also.’
Who acts: I · What happens: shoot, say, kill · To what, where: huntsman, beautiful young lady · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 shoot | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 shoot | nsubj |
| 3 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shoot | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 dare | advmod |
| 5 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 shoot | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 shoot | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 shoot | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 huntsman | det |
| 12 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kill | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 kill | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 kill | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 kill | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 kill | aux |
| 18 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lady | det |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lady | amod |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lady | amod |
| 22 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kill | obj |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 kill | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 kill | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | present | I | at king | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the huntsman | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | kill | should | I | the beautiful young lady | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=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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