Grimms' Fairy Tales, Old Sultan, sentence 2

And one day when the shepherd and his wife were standing together before the house the shepherd said, ‘I will shoot old Sultan tomorrow morning, for he is of no use now.’

Who acts: shepherd, I · What happens: stand together, say, shoot, be · To what, where: house · 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, I), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 standing	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 standing	obl:unmarked
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 standing	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shepherd	det
6	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 standing	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wife	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shepherd	conj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 standing	aux
11	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 said	advcl
12	together	together	ADV	_	11 standing	advmod
13	before	before	ADP	_	15 house	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 standing	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shepherd	det
17	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 shoot	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 shoot	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 shoot	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 shoot	aux
23	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 morning	amod
25	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 morning	compound
26	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 morning	compound
27	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shoot	obl:unmarked
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 use	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	34 use	case
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 use	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 use	cop
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 use	case
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 use	det
34	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shoot	conj
35	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 use	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 shoot	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 shoot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand together	past · progressive	the shepherd and shepherd's wife	the house	day	together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before house=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the shepherd				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	shoot	future	I		morning		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	shepherd		now	for no use	tree rules

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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