Grimms' Fairy Tales, Old Sultan, sentence 19

So the next morning the wolf sent the boar to challenge Sultan to come into the wood to fight the matter.

Who acts: wolf · What happens: send, challenge, come, fight · To what, where: boar, Sultan, wood, matter

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	So	so	ADV	_	7 sent	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sent	obl:unmarked
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wolf	det
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sent	nsubj
7	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boar	det
9	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sent	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 challenge	mark
11	challenge	challenge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sent	advcl
12	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 challenge	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 come	mark
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 challenge	xcomp
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 wood	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wood	det
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 fight	mark
19	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 come	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 matter	det
21	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fight	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	send	past	the wolf	the boar		morning	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boar=Theme
2	challenge	to-infinitive	the wolf not said here	Sultan			tree rules
3	come	to-infinitive	the wolf not said here		the wood		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location
4	fight	to-infinitive	the wolf not said here	the matter			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Co-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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