Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 47
I did not know who it was, and I entreated him three times either to speak or to go away.’
Who acts: I, evil · What happens: not know, be, entreat, speak, go away · To what, where: father · 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, evil), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 know | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 who | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 who | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 entreated | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 entreated | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 entreated | nsubj |
| 11 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 entreated | obj |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 times | nummod |
| 14 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 entreated | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 entreated | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 speak | mark |
| 17 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 entreated | advcl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 go | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 speak | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | evil | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | entreat | past | I | father | time | either property | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||
| 4 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go away | to-infinitive | I not said here | away property | 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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