Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 9

‘Well,’ said the huntsman, ‘this is wonderful; this happens just as the old woman said’; then he shot into the midst of them so that their feathers flew all about.

Who acts: this, old woman, huntsman, feathers · What happens: say, be, happen, shoot, fly · To what, where: huntsman, midst · 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 (this, old woman, huntsman, feathers), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 huntsman	det
7	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wonderful	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 wonderful	punct
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 wonderful	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 wonderful	cop
12	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	parataxis
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 happens	punct
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 happens	nsubj
15	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 wonderful	advcl
16	just	just	ADV	_	21 said	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 said	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 woman	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 happens	parataxis
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 shot	punct
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 shot	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 shot	nsubj
26	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 midst	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 midst	det
29	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shot	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 midst	nmod
32	so	so	SCONJ	_	36 flew	mark
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 flew	mark
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 feathers	nmod:poss
35	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 flew	nsubj
36	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 shot	advcl
37	all	all	ADV	_	38 about	advmod
38	about	about	ADV	_	36 flew	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the huntsman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent huntsman=Topic
2	is	present	this				wonderful property	tree rules
3	happen	present	this					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the old woman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	shoot	past	huntsman		the midst of birds	then		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into midst=Destination
6	fly	past	birds's feathers				about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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