Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 191
Then the youth seized the axe, split the anvil with one blow, and in it caught the old man’s beard.
Who acts: youth, anvil · What happens: seize, split, catch · To what, where: axe, anvil, beard
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 (youth, anvil), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 seized | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | nsubj |
| 4 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 axe | det |
| 6 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 split | punct |
| 8 | split | split | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seized | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 anvil | det |
| 10 | anvil | anvil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 split | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 blow | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 blow | nummod |
| 13 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 split | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 caught | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 caught | cc |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 18 caught | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 caught | nsubj |
| 18 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beard | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 man | case |
| 23 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 caught | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the youth | the axe | then | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | |||
| 2 | split | infinitive | the youth not said here | the anvil | with one blow | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent anvil=Patient with blow=Instrument | |||
| 3 | catch | past | anvil | the old man's beard | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=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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