Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 3

‘Perhaps some accident has befallen him,’ said the king, and the next day he sent out two more huntsmen who were to search for him, but they too stayed away.

Who acts: king, two more huntsmen, animals · What happens: befall, say, send out, search, stay away · To what, where: accident, king, two more huntsmen · 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 (king, two more huntsmen, animals), 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	_	6 befallen	punct
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 befallen	advmod
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 accident	det
4	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 befallen	nsubj:pass
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 befallen	aux
6	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 befallen	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 befallen	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 befallen	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sent	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sent	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 day	det
16	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 day	amod
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	obl:unmarked
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sent	nsubj
19	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 sent	compound:prt
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 huntsmen	nummod
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 huntsmen	amod
23	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sent	obj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 search	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 search	aux
26	to	to	PART	_	27 search	mark
27	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 huntsmen	acl:relcl
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 search	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stayed	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 stayed	cc
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 stayed	nsubj
33	too	too	ADV	_	34 stayed	advmod
34	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sent	conj
35	away	away	ADV	_	34 stayed	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	befall	present · perfect · passive		some accident		perhaps property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the king			tree rules
3	send out	past	king	two more huntsmen	day		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent huntsman=Theme
4	search	past	two more huntsmen	two more huntsmen not said here		for king	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for he=Theme
5	stay away	past	animals = animal			away property	vn exist-47.1 «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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