Grimms' Fairy Tales, Old Sultan, sentence 18

Then the wolf was very angry, and called Sultan ‘an old rogue,’ and swore he would have his revenge.

Who acts: wolf · What happens: be, call, swear, have, revenge · To what, where: Sultan, revenge · 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 (wolf), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 angry	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 angry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 called	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 called	cc
9	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	parataxis
10	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 called	obj
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 rogue	punct
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 rogue	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rogue	amod
14	rogue	rogue	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rogue	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 rogue	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 swore	cc
18	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 called	conj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 have	aux
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 swore	ccomp
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 revenge	nmod:poss
23	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wolf			then	angry property	tree rules
2	call	past			Sultan			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient
3	swear	past						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	have	would	wolf	wolf's revenge				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Patient
5	revenge		wolf					nom revenge «act 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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