Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 116

‘I have looked at your fingers,’ said he, ‘and my fancy for card-playing has gone,’ and he struck them dead and threw them out into the water.

Who acts: I, fire, fancy, my · What happens: look, say, go, strike, throw out, fancy · To what, where: fingers, water · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, fire, fancy, my), 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	_	4 looked	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	aux
4	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 fingers	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 fingers	nmod:poss
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
13	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	22 gone	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 gone	cc
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 fancy	nmod:poss
16	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gone	nsubj
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 playing	case
18	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 playing	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 card	punct
20	playing	playing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fancy	nmod
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 gone	aux
22	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gone	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 gone	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 struck	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 struck	nsubj
27	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 struck	obj
29	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 struck	xcomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 threw	cc
31	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 struck	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 threw	obj
33	out	out	ADP	_	31 threw	compound:prt
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 water	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 water	det
36	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 threw	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present · perfect	I		at your fingers	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at finger=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	fire			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	present · perfect	my fancy for card playing			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	strike	past	fire	fingers = finger	dead property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	throw out	past	fire not said here	fingers = finger	into the water result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into water=Result
6	fancy		my		for card playing	nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=agent for=obl

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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