Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 76
A third time he called out, ‘God be with you,’ and then thinking he should like to know the cause of dispute between the three men, he went out and asked them why they were fighting so angrily with one another.
Who acts: God, robbers · What happens: call out, be, think, like, know, go out · To what, where: third time, cause, God, robbers, dispute · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, robbers), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 God | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 called | nsubj |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 called | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 God | punct |
| 9 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 you | cop |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 God | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 you | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 God | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thinking | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 thinking | advmod |
| 17 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 God | conj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 like | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 like | aux |
| 20 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 thinking | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 know | mark |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 like | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cause | det |
| 24 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 know | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 dispute | case |
| 26 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cause | nmod |
| 27 | between | between | ADP | _ | 30 men | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 men | det |
| 29 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 men | nummod |
| 30 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 dispute | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 went | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 went | nsubj |
| 33 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 God | acl:relcl |
| 34 | out | out | ADV | _ | 33 went | advmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 asked | cc |
| 36 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 went | conj |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 asked | obj |
| 38 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 fighting | advmod |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 fighting | nsubj |
| 40 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 fighting | aux |
| 41 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 asked | advcl |
| 42 | so | so | ADV | _ | 43 angrily | advmod |
| 43 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 41 fighting | advmod |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 one | case |
| 45 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 fighting | obl |
| 46 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 45 one | fixed |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 God | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | past | God | a third time not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent time=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | with you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | then | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | like | should | God | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | God not said here | the cause of dispute between the three men | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cause=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | go out | past | God | God not said here | out property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | past | God not said here | robbers = robber | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 8 | fight | past · progressive | robbers = robber | with one; angrily property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with one=Co-Agent | ||||
| 9 | cause | dispute between the three men | nom cause «event 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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