Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 168

‘Look sharp!’ said the king to the huntsmen, ‘and see what sort of game lies there.’

Who acts: sort · What happens: look, say, see, lie, sort · To what, where: king, game · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sort), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Look	xcomp
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 huntsmen	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 huntsmen	det
11	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ‘	punct
13	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 huntsmen	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 see	cc
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
16	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	17 sort	det
17	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lies	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 game	case
19	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sort	nmod
20	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 see	ccomp
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 lies	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	infinitive				sharp property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past		the king		to the huntsmen and ‘	tree rules
3	see	infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	lie	present	what sort of game		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sort			game			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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