Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 9
The huntsman replied: ‘Lord, I will venture it at my own risk, of fear I know nothing.’
Who acts: huntsman, I, my · What happens: reply, venture, know, risk · To what, where: consent, own risk, nothing · 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 (huntsman, I, my), 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 huntsman | det |
| 2 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 venture | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 venture | punct |
| 6 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 venture | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Lord | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 venture | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 venture | aux |
| 10 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 venture | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 risk | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 risk | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 risk | amod |
| 15 | risk | risk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 venture | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 fear | case |
| 18 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 know | obl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 venture | parataxis |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 know | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 venture | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 venture | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the huntsman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | venture | future | I | consent | my own risk | Lord vocative | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||
| 3 | know | present | I | nothing | of fear | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | risk | my | nom risk «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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