Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 118

He watched them for a while quietly, but at last when they were going too far, he seized his cutting-knife, and cried: ‘Away with you, vermin,’ and began to cut them down.

Who acts: fire, cats · What happens: watch, go, seize, cry, begin, cut down · To what, where: cats, cutting knife, last, vermin

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, cats), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 watched	nsubj
2	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 watched	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 while	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 while	det
6	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 watched	obl
7	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 watched	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seized	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 seized	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 seized	obl
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 going	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 going	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 going	aux
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 last	parataxis
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 far	advmod
17	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 going	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 last	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 seized	nsubj
20	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 watched	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 knife	nmod:poss
22	cutting	cutting	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 knife	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 cutting	punct
24	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seized	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cried	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cried	cc
27	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 watched	parataxis
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 Away	punct
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 Away	punct
30	Away	away	ADV	_	27 cried	advmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 you	case
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 cried	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 vermin	punct
34	vermin	vermin	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cried	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 vermin	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 vermin	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 began	cc
38	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 cried	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 cut	mark
40	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 began	xcomp
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 cut	obj
42	down	down	ADP	_	40 cut	compound:prt
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 watched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	fire	cats = cat		while	quietly property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	go	past · progressive	cats = cat				far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seize	past	fire	fire's cutting knife	last			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
4	cry speech: express	past		vermin			with you; away property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with you=Theme
5	begin	past						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	cut down	to-infinitive		cats = cat				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

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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