Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 66
‘With all my heart,’ said the huntsman; ‘I am sure I shall be glad to save you, for I could not have shot you.’
Who acts: I · What happens: say, be, save, not shoot · To what, where: huntsman, you, I · 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), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | With | with | ADP | _ | 5 heart | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 heart | det:predet |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heart | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 heart | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 huntsman | det |
| 10 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 sure | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 sure | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 sure | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sure | cop |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 glad | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 glad | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 glad | cop |
| 19 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sure | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 save | mark |
| 21 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 glad | xcomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 save | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 shot | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 shot | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 shot | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 shot | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 shot | advmod |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 shot | aux |
| 29 | shot | shoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 sure | conj |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 shot | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the huntsman | with my heart | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent huntsman=Theme with heart=Manner | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | shall | I | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | save | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not shoot | could · perfect · passive | I | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination 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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