Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 11

His punishment, however, was not delayed; when he had made a few blows at the tree he struck himself in the leg, so that he had to be carried home.

Who acts: punishment, man · What happens: not be, make, strike, have, carry, punish · To what, where: few blows, tree, man, leg

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (punishment, man), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 punishment	nmod:poss
2	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 delayed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 punishment	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	8 delayed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 delayed	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 delayed	advmod
8	delayed	delayed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 made	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	aux
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 delayed	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 blows	det
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 blows	amod
16	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 made	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 tree	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tree	det
19	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 blows	nmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 struck	nsubj
21	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 tree	acl:relcl
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 struck	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 leg	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 leg	det
25	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 struck	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
27	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	30 had	mark
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 so	fixed
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	33 carried	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 carried	aux:pass
33	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 had	xcomp
34	home	home	ADV	_	33 carried	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 delayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	man's punishment			delayed, however property	tree rules
2	make	past · perfect	man	a few blows	the tree		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Product
3	strike	past	man	man	the leg		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
4	have	past	man				tree rules
5	carry	to-infinitive · passive	man not said here			home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»
6	punish		man				nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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