Grimms' Fairy Tales, Old Sultan, sentence 11
Then the shepherd patted him on the head, and said, ‘Old Sultan has saved our child from the wolf, and therefore he shall live and be well taken care of, and have plenty to eat.
Who acts: shepherd, Old Sultan, Sultan · What happens: pat, say, save, live, take, have · To what, where: Sultan, child, wolf, care, plenty · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (shepherd, Old Sultan, Sultan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2591:206): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 patted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shepherd | det |
| 3 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 patted | nsubj |
| 4 | patted | pat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 patted | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 head | det |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 patted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 patted | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saved | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 saved | punct |
| 14 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Sultan | amod |
| 15 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 saved | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 saved | aux |
| 17 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 child | nmod:poss |
| 19 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saved | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 wolf | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wolf | det |
| 22 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saved | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 live | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 live | cc |
| 25 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 28 live | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 live | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 live | aux |
| 28 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 saved | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 taken | cc |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 taken | aux:pass |
| 31 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 taken | advmod |
| 32 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 live | conj |
| 33 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 taken | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 taken | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 have | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 have | cc |
| 37 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 live | conj |
| 38 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 have | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 eat | mark |
| 40 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 plenty | acl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 patted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pat | past | the shepherd | Sultan | then | on the head | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer on head=Theme | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the shepherd not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | save | present · perfect | Old Sultan | our child | the wolf | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent child=Theme from wolf=Source | |||
| 4 | live | shall | Sultan | therefore property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take | infinitive · passive | Sultan not said here | care | well property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: care=Theme | |||
| 6 | have | infinitive | Sultan not said here | plenty | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | ||||
| 7 | eat | to-infinitive | Sultan not said here | plenty not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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