Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 2
One day he sent out a huntsman to shoot him a roe, but he did not come back.
Who acts: king · What happens: send out, shoot, not come back · To what, where: huntsman, roe, 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), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 sent | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 huntsman | det |
| 7 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 shoot | mark |
| 9 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shoot | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 roe | det |
| 12 | roe | roe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shoot | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 come | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 come | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 come | advmod |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 shoot | conj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send out | past | king | a huntsman | day | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent huntsman=Theme | |||
| 2 | shoot | to-infinitive | king not said here | a roe | king | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination roe=Theme | |||
| 3 | not come back | past · do-support | king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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