Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 43

‘I have shut them up by a charm between two mountains,’ said the dwarf, ‘because they were proud and ill-behaved, and scorned to ask advice.’

Who acts: I, armies · What happens: shut up, say, be, behave, scorn, ask · To what, where: armies, dwarf, advice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, armies), 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	_	4 shut	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 shut	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shut	aux
4	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 said	ccomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shut	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 shut	compound:prt
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 charm	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 charm	det
9	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shut	obl
10	between	between	ADP	_	12 mountains	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 mountains	nummod
12	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 charm	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shut	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dwarf	det
17	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 proud	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 proud	punct
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 proud	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 proud	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 proud	cop
23	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	ccomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 behaved	cc
25	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 behaved	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 ill	punct
27	behaved	behave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 proud	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 scorned	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 scorned	cc
30	scorned	scorn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 said	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 ask	mark
32	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 scorned	advcl
33	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ask	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shut up	present · perfect	I	armies = army	by a charm between two mountains	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past		the dwarf		tree rules
3	is	past	armies = army		proud property	tree rules
4	behave	participle	armies = army not said here			vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
5	scorn	participle				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive		advice		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient

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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