Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 169

And the huntsmen went up to the tree, and when they came back again said, ‘In the hollow tree there lies a most wonderful beast, such as we never saw before; its skin seems to be of a thousand kinds of fur, but there it lies fast asleep.’

Who acts: huntsmen, trees, we, skin · What happens: go up, come back, say, lie, not see, seem · To what, where: wonderful beast, hollow tree · 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 (huntsmen, trees, we, skin), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 went	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 huntsmen	det
3	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 went	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 tree	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 came	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	advcl
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	again	again	ADV	_	16 said	advmod
16	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 went	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lies	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 lies	punct
19	In	in	ADP	_	22 tree	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tree	det
21	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tree	amod
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lies	obl
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 lies	expl
24	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 beast	det
26	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	27 wonderful	advmod
27	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 beast	amod
28	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lies	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 saw	punct
30	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	34 saw	case
31	as	as	ADP	_	30 such	fixed
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 saw	nsubj
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 saw	advmod
34	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 beast	acl:relcl
35	before	before	ADV	_	34 saw	advmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 seems	punct
37	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 skin	nmod:poss
38	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 seems	nsubj
39	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
40	to	to	PART	_	45 kinds	mark
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 kinds	cop
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 kinds	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 thousand	det
44	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 kinds	nummod
45	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 seems	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 fur	case
47	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 kinds	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 lies	punct
49	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 lies	cc
50	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	52 lies	expl
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 lies	nsubj
52	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 seems	conj
53	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	52 lies	advmod
54	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 lies	xcomp
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
56	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	the huntsmen				to the tree	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	come back	past	trees = tree					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	participle				again		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	lie	present		a wonderful beast	the hollow tree; there			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beast=Theme
5	not see	past	we	a wonderful beast not said here			before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beast=Stimulus
6	seem	present	‘'s skin					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
7	is	to-infinitive					of thousand kinds; of fur	tree rules
8	lie	present	SKIN		there		asleep, fast property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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