Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 38
She carried him down, and then with loud screams she hastened to the boy’s father, ‘Your boy,’ cried she, ‘has been the cause of a great misfortune!
Who acts: woman · What happens: carry down, hasten, cry, be · To what, where: husband, boy, woman, cause
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 (woman), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 carried | obj |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 carried | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hastened | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hastened | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 hastened | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 screams | case |
| 9 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 screams | amod |
| 10 | screams | scream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hastened | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hastened | nsubj |
| 12 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 carried | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 father | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 boy | case |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hastened | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 boy | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 boy | punct |
| 20 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 boy | nmod:poss |
| 21 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hastened | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cried | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 cried | punct |
| 24 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 carried | conj |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 cried | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 cause | punct |
| 27 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 cause | punct |
| 28 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 cause | aux |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 cause | cop |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 cause | det |
| 31 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cried | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 misfortune | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 misfortune | det |
| 34 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 misfortune | amod |
| 35 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cause | nmod |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry down | past | woman | husband | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hasten | past | woman | Your boy | then | with loud screams; to the boy's father result | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to father=Result | ||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | woman not said here | woman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a | present · perfect | the cause | of a great misfortune | tree rules |
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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