Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 19
Meantime the huntsman came nearer and looked at the lady, and said to himself, ‘I have been travelling so long that I should like to go into this castle and rest myself, for I have money enough to pay for anything I want’; but the real reason was, that he wanted to see more of the beautiful lady.
Who acts: Meantime huntsman, I, money, real reason · What happens: meantime, come, look, say, travel, like · To what, where: huntsman, castle, myself, money, more · 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 (Meantime huntsman, I, money, real reason), 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 | Meantime | meantime | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 huntsman | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 huntsman | det |
| 3 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nearer | near | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looked | cc |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 lady | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lady | det |
| 10 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 himself | case |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 travelling | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 travelling | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 travelling | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 travelling | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 travelling | aux |
| 21 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | advcl |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 long | advmod |
| 23 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 travelling | advmod |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 like | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 like | nsubj |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 like | aux |
| 27 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 travelling | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 go | mark |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 like | xcomp |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 castle | case |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 castle | det |
| 32 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 go | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 rest | cc |
| 34 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 go | conj |
| 35 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 rest | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 have | punct |
| 37 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 39 have | mark |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 have | nsubj |
| 39 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 rest | advcl |
| 40 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 have | obj |
| 41 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 39 have | advmod |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 pay | mark |
| 43 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 have | xcomp |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 anything | case |
| 45 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 43 pay | obl |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 want | nsubj |
| 47 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 anything | acl:relcl |
| 48 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 47 want | punct |
| 49 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 58 wanted | punct |
| 50 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 58 wanted | cc |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 reason | det |
| 52 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 reason | amod |
| 53 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 wanted | nsubj |
| 54 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 58 wanted | cop |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 wanted | punct |
| 56 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 58 wanted | mark |
| 57 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 wanted | nsubj |
| 58 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 59 | to | to | PART | _ | 60 see | mark |
| 60 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 58 wanted | xcomp |
| 61 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 60 see | obj |
| 62 | of | of | ADP | _ | 65 lady | case |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 65 lady | det |
| 64 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 65 lady | amod |
| 65 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 more | obl |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meantime | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | come | past | the Meantime huntsman | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | past | the Meantime huntsman not said here | at the lady | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lady=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | huntsman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | travel | present · perfect · progressive | I | long property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | like | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | this castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | rest | infinitive | I not said here | myself | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location myself=Theme | ||||
| 9 | have | present | I | money | enough property | tree rules | |||
| 10 | pay | to-infinitive | money not said here | for anything | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for anything=Theme | ||||
| 11 | want | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 12 | is | past | the real reason | want property | tree rules | ||||
| 13 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | the real reason not said here | more | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
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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