Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, sentence 3
So the father sent one of his sons in haste to the spring to get some water, but the other six ran with him.
Who acts: father, other six · What happens: send, get, run · To what, where: one, water
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Seven Ravens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, other six), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 sent | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 father | det |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 sent | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sons | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sons | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 haste | case |
| 10 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sons | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 spring | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spring | det |
| 13 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 water | det |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ran | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 ran | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 six | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 six | amod |
| 22 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 ran | nsubj |
| 23 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ran | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the father | one of father's sons in haste | spring | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | the father not said here | some water | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | run | past | the other six | with father | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with he=Material |
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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