Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 20
‘No,’ said the boy, ‘I will not do that; the king has forbidden it,’ and ran away.
Who acts: boy, I, king · What happens: say, not do, forbid, run away · To what, where: that, door · 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 (boy, I, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 do | advmod |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 do | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 forbidden | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forbidden | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 forbidden | aux |
| 19 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 forbidden | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 forbidden | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 forbidden | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ran | cc |
| 24 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 forbidden | conj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 ran | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not do | future | I | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | forbid | present · perfect | the king | door | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run away | past | the king not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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