Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 12
When the huntsman saw that, he went back and fetched three men to come with buckets and bale out the water.
Who acts: huntsman · What happens: see, go back, fetch, come out · To what, where: three men, water
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huntsman), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 huntsman | det |
| 3 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fetched | cc |
| 11 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 men | nummod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fetched | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 come | mark |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fetched | advcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 buckets | case |
| 17 | buckets | bucket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 come | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bale | cc |
| 19 | bale | bale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 buckets | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 come | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 water | det |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the huntsman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | go back | past | huntsman | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | fetch | past | huntsman not said here | three men | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come out | to-infinitive | huntsman not said here | the water | with buckets and bale | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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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