Grimms' Fairy Tales, Old Sultan, sentence 17

But Sultan had told his master what the wolf meant to do; so he laid wait for him behind the barn door, and when the wolf was busy looking out for a good fat sheep, he had a stout cudgel laid about his back, that combed his locks for him finely.

Who acts: Sultan, wolf, stout cudgel, that · What happens: tell, mean, do, lay, wait, be · To what, where: master, barn door, locks · 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 (Sultan, wolf, stout cudgel, that), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 told	cc
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 master	nmod:poss
6	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 meant	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wolf	det
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 meant	nsubj
10	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 master	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 meant	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 laid	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 laid	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 laid	nsubj
16	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
17	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 laid	xcomp
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wait	obl
20	behind	behind	ADP	_	23 door	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 door	det
22	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 door	compound
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wait	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 had	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 had	cc
26	when	when	SCONJ	_	30 busy	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wolf	det
28	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 busy	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 busy	cop
30	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 had	advcl
31	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 busy	advcl
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 looking	compound:prt
33	for	for	ADP	_	37 sheep	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 sheep	det
35	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 sheep	amod
36	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sheep	compound
37	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 looking	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 busy	punct
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 had	nsubj
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 cudgel	det
42	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 cudgel	amod
43	cudgel	cudgel	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 laid	nsubj
44	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 had	ccomp
45	about	about	ADP	_	47 back	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 back	nmod:poss
47	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 laid	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 combed	punct
49	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 combed	nsubj
50	combed	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 laid	conj
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 locks	nmod:poss
52	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 combed	obj
53	for	for	ADP	_	54 him	case
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 combed	obl
55	finely	finely	ADV	_	50 combed	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	Sultan	Sultan's master			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient
2	mean	past	the wolf	Sultan's master			tree rules
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the wolf not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lay	past	wolf				tree rules
5	wait	infinitive	wolf not said here		the barn door	for wolf	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind door=Location
6	is	past	the wolf			busy property	tree rules
7	look out	gerund	the wolf not said here			for a good fat sheep	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for sheep=Theme
8	have	past	wolf				tree rules
9	lay	past	a stout cudgel			about wolf's back	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about back=Destination
10	comb	past	that	wolf's locks		for wolf; finely property	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent lock=Location for he=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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