Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 35
‘Tread upon him and kill him,’ said the second.
What happens: tread, kill, say · To what, where: sleep, second · 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: 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tread | punct |
| 2 | Tread | tread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Tread | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 kill | cc |
| 6 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Tread | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 kill | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tread | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tread | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 second | det |
| 12 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tread | infinitive | upon sleep | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | kill | infinitive | sleep | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the second | tree rules |
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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