Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 34
When the wild man had once more reached the dark forest, he took the boy down from his shoulder, and said to him: ‘You will never see your father and mother again, but I will keep you with me, for you have set me free, and I have compassion on you.
Who acts: wild man, king, You, I · What happens: reach, take down, say, not see, keep, set · To what, where: dark forest, boy, shoulder, king, father, you · 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 (wild man, king, You, I), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 reached | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 reached | aux |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 reached | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 reached | advmod |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 forest | det |
| 10 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 forest | amod |
| 11 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 reached | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boy | det |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 took | compound:prt |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 shoulder | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 20 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | obl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 see | punct |
| 27 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 see | punct |
| 28 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 see | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 see | aux |
| 30 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 31 see | advmod |
| 31 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 said | conj |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 father | nmod:poss |
| 33 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 see | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 mother | cc |
| 35 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 father | conj |
| 36 | again | again | ADV | _ | 31 see | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 keep | punct |
| 38 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 keep | cc |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 keep | nsubj |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 keep | aux |
| 41 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 see | parataxis |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 keep | obj |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 me | case |
| 44 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 keep | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 set | punct |
| 46 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 49 set | mark |
| 47 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 49 set | nsubj:pass |
| 48 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 set | aux |
| 49 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 keep | conj |
| 50 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 set | obj |
| 51 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 set | xcomp |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 have | punct |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 have | cc |
| 54 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 55 have | nsubj |
| 55 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | parataxis |
| 56 | compassion | compassion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 have | obj |
| 57 | on | on | ADP | _ | 58 you | case |
| 58 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 55 have | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the wild man | the dark forest | once property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent forest=Theme | |||
| 2 | take down | past | king | the boy | king's shoulder | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | not see | future | You | your father and mother | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | keep | future | I | you | with me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 6 | set | present · perfect · passive | you | free property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme i=Destination | ||||
| 7 | have | present | I | compassion | on you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compassion=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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