Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 31
The lion said: ‘They have been informed that they were going to be put to the test, and have assumed some strength.
Who acts: lion, peas · What happens: say, inform, go, put, assume · To what, where: peas, strength · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion, peas), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lion | det |
| 2 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 informed | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 informed | punct |
| 6 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 informed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 informed | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 informed | aux:pass |
| 9 | informed | inform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 going | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 going | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 going | aux |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 informed | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 put | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 put | aux:pass |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 going | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 test | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 test | det |
| 19 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 assumed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 assumed | cc |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 assumed | aux |
| 23 | assumed | assume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | conj |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 strength | det |
| 25 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 assumed | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | inform speech: other | present · perfect · passive | peas = pea | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | peas = pea | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | put | to-infinitive · passive | peas = pea not said here | to the test | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» | ||||
| 5 | assume | present · perfect | the lion not said here | some strength | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=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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