Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 115
Thereupon he seized them by the throats, put them on the cutting-board and screwed their feet fast.
Who acts: fire · What happens: seize, put, screw · To what, where: claws, cutting board, feet
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 seized | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seized | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 throats | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 throats | det |
| 7 | throats | throat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seized | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seized | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 board | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 board | det |
| 13 | cutting | cutting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 board | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 cutting | punct |
| 15 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 screwed | cc |
| 17 | screwed | screw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 feet | nmod:poss |
| 19 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 screwed | obj |
| 20 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 screwed | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | fire | claws = claw | by the throats; thereupon property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | fire not said here | claws = claw | the cutting board | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on board=Destination | |||
| 3 | screw | past | fire not said here | claws's feet | fast property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |
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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