Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 38
The lion replied: ‘They have restrained themselves.’
Who acts: lion, huntsmen · What happens: reply, restrain · To what, where: huntsmen · 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, huntsmen), 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 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 restrained | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 restrained | punct |
| 6 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 restrained | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 restrained | aux |
| 8 | restrained | restrain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 9 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 restrained | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 restrained | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 restrained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the lion | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | restrain | present · perfect | huntsmen = huntsman | huntsmen = huntsman | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer themselves=Eventuality |
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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