Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 11

Then the huntsman did as the old woman told him, cut open the bird, took out the heart, and carried the cloak home with him.

Who acts: huntsman, old woman · What happens: do, tell, cut, open, take out, carry · To what, where: huntsman, bird, heart, cloak · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huntsman, old woman), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 did	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 huntsman	det
3	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 told	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cut	punct
12	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	parataxis
13	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cut	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bird	det
15	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 open	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cut	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 took	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 heart	det
20	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 carried	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 carried	cc
23	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cloak	det
25	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 carried	obj
26	home	home	ADV	_	23 carried	advmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 carried	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the huntsman			then		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	the old woman		huntsman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	cut	past						tree rules
4	open	infinitive		the bird				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme
5	take out	past		the heart				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme
6	carry	past	the huntsman not said here	the cloak			with huntsman; home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=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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