Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 64
‘Alas!’ said the huntsman; ‘the king has ordered me to shoot you.’
Who acts: king · What happens: say, order, shoot · To what, where: huntsman, me, you · 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 (king), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 huntsman | det |
| 7 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 ordered | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 ordered | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ordered | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 ordered | aux |
| 13 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | parataxis |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 ordered | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 shoot | mark |
| 16 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ordered | xcomp |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 shoot | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the huntsman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent huntsman=Topic | |||||
| 2 | order | present · perfect | the king | me | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | shoot not said to happen | to-infinitive | the king not said here | you | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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