Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 27

The boy had become afraid; he called and cried after him: ‘Oh, wild man, do not go away, or I shall be beaten!’

Who acts: boy, wild man · What happens: become, call, cry, not go away, beat · To what, where: wild man, I · 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, wild man), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 become	xcomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 called	nsubj
8	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 become	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cried	cc
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 called	conj
11	after	after	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 man	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 man	punct
15	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	18 man	discourse
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Oh	punct
17	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 go	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 go	advmod
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 man	acl:relcl
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 go	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 beaten	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 beaten	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 beaten	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 beaten	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 beaten	aux:pass
29	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 go	parataxis
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 man	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	become	past · perfect	the boy			afraid property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	call	past	boy				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cry speech: express	past	boy not said here	wild man	after boy		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not go away	infinitive · do-support	wild man not said here			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	beat	shall · passive		I			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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