Grimms' Fairy Tales, Old Sultan, sentence 10

The wolf ran with the child a little way; the shepherd and his wife screamed out; but Sultan soon overtook him, and carried the poor little thing back to his master and mistress.

Who acts: wolf, shepherd, Sultan · What happens: run, scream out, overtake, carry · To what, where: little way, shepherd, poor little thing, master

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Old Sultan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf, shepherd, Sultan), 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 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 child	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl:unmarked
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 screamed	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shepherd	det
12	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 screamed	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wife	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wife	nmod:poss
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shepherd	conj
16	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 screamed	compound:prt
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 overtook	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 overtook	cc
20	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 overtook	nsubj
21	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 overtook	advmod
22	overtook	overtake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 overtook	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 carried	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 carried	cc
26	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 thing	det
28	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 thing	amod
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 thing	amod
30	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carried	obj
31	back	back	ADV	_	26 carried	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 master	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 master	nmod:poss
34	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carried	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 mistress	cc
36	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 master	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	the wolf	a little way		with the child	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with child=Material
2	scream out speech: express	past	the shepherd and shepherd's wife				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	overtake	past	Sultan	shepherd		soon property	tree rules
4	carry	past	the wolf not said here	the poor little thing	shepherd's master and mistress		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme to master=Destination

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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