Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 192

The cook was frightened when he heard the order, and said to Cat-skin, ‘You must have let a hair fall into the soup; if it be so, you will have a good beating.’

Who acts: cook, You, soup · What happens: frighten, hear, say, cat, let, fall · To what, where: cook, order, skin, You, soup, good beating · 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 (cook, You, soup), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frightened	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	aux:pass
4	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 heard	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 order	det
9	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 Cat	case
14	Cat	cat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 skin	punct
16	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Cat	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
19	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 let	nsubj:pass
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 let	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	aux
22	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hair	det
24	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 let	obj
25	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 soup	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 soup	det
28	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fall	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 have	punct
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 so	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 so	nsubj
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 so	cop
33	so	so	ADV	_	37 have	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 so	punct
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 have	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 have	aux
37	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 frightened	parataxis
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 beating	det
39	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 beating	amod
40	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 have	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 have	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	37 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		the cook		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	hear	past	cook	the order		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer order=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	cat	infinitive		skin		tree rules
5	let	must · perfect · passive		You		tree rules
6	fall	infinitive	You not said here		into the soup result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into soup=Result
7	is a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	soup		so property	tree rules
8	have	future	you	a good beating		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beating=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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