Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 125

He gave the order that if the knight who caught the apple, should go away again they should pursue him, and if he would not come back willingly, they were to cut him down and stab him.

Who acts: king, knight, men · What happens: give, catch, go away, pursue, not come back, cut down · To what, where: order, apple, king

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 (king, knight, men), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 order	det
4	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 go	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 knight	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 knight	det
8	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	advcl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 caught	nsubj
10	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 knight	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 apple	det
12	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 caught	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 knight	punct
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gave	advcl
16	away	away	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
17	again	again	ADV	_	20 pursue	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pursue	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 pursue	aux
20	pursue	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pursue	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 come	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 come	cc
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 come	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 come	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 come	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 come	advmod
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gave	conj
29	back	back	ADV	_	28 come	advmod
30	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	28 come	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 cut	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 cut	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 cut	aux
34	to	to	PART	_	35 cut	mark
35	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gave	parataxis
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 cut	obj
37	down	down	ADP	_	35 cut	compound:prt
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 stab	cc
39	stab	stab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 cut	conj
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 stab	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	king	the order			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
2	catch	past	the knight	the apple			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme
3	go away	should	king not said here			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pursue	should	men = man	king	again		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	not come back a condition, not said to happen	would	king			willingly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	cut down	past	men = man	king			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
7	stab	infinitive	men = man not said here	king			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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