Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 95
Thereupon the wild man appeared immediately, and said: ‘What do you desire?’
Who acts: wild man, you · What happens: appear, say, desire · 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, 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 5 appeared | advmod |
| 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 | 5 appeared | nsubj |
| 5 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 5 appeared | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appeared | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 desire | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 desire | punct |
| 12 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 desire | obj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 desire | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 desire | nsubj |
| 15 | desire | desire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 desire | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 desire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the wild man | immediately, thereupon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the wild man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | desire | present · do-support | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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