Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 4
Then on the third day, he sent for all his huntsmen, and said: ‘Scour the whole forest through, and do not give up until you have found all three.’
Who acts: king, you · What happens: send, say, scour, not give up, find · To what, where: whole forest, three · 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, you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 sent | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sent | nsubj |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 huntsmen | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 huntsmen | det:predet |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 huntsmen | nmod:poss |
| 12 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sent | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sent | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Scour | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Scour | punct |
| 18 | Scour | scour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 forest | det |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 forest | amod |
| 21 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Scour | obj |
| 22 | through | through | ADV | _ | 18 Scour | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 give | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 give | cc |
| 25 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 27 give | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 give | advmod |
| 27 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Scour | conj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 give | compound:prt |
| 29 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 32 found | mark |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 found | nsubj |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 found | aux |
| 32 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 give | advcl |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 three | det |
| 34 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 found | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 Scour | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Scour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | king | then; day | for king's huntsmen | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | scour | infinitive | the whole forest | through property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent forest=Source | ||||
| 4 | not give up | infinitive · do-support | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | find | present · perfect | you | all three | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Topic |
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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