Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 195
The youth drew out the axe and let him go.
Who acts: youth · What happens: draw out, let, go · To what, where: axe, youth
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 drew | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 axe | det |
| 6 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 let | cc |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw out | past | the youth | the axe | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | the youth not said here | youth | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | youth not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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