Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 83
Then he fell upon them with the stick and beat them one after another, crying, ‘There, you idle vagabonds, you have got what you deserve; are you satisfied now!’
Who acts: thing, you · What happens: fall, beat, cry, get, deserve, be · To what, where: horses
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 (thing, you), 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 | 3 fell | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fell | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 stick | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stick | det |
| 8 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 beat | cc |
| 10 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fell | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 beat | obj |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 beat | obj |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 another | case |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 one | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 crying | punct |
| 16 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 beat | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 got | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 got | punct |
| 19 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 got | expl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 got | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 got | nsubj |
| 22 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 vagabonds | amod |
| 23 | vagabonds | vagabond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 you | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 got | punct |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 got | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 got | aux |
| 27 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 fell | parataxis |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 30 deserve | obj |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 deserve | nsubj |
| 30 | deserve | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 got | ccomp |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 satisfied | punct |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 satisfied | cop |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 satisfied | nsubj |
| 34 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fell | conj |
| 35 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 satisfied | advmod |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | thing | then | upon horses = horse; with the stick | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=Location | |||
| 2 | beat | infinitive | thing not said here | horses = horse | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent they=Patient one=Result | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | thing not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get | present · perfect | you | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | deserve | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is | present | you | now | satisfied property | tree rules |
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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