Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 54
In the end, however, they caught her: and the wife said, ‘Shall I kill her at once?’
Who acts: walls, wife, I · What happens: catch, say, kill · To what, where: sparrow, end · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walls, wife, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caught | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 end | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 caught | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 caught | nsubj |
| 8 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 caught | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wife | det |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 caught | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kill | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 kill | punct |
| 17 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 kill | aux |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 kill | nsubj |
| 19 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 kill | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 once | case |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 kill | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 kill | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | walls = wall | sparrow | in the end | however property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | kill | shall | I | sparrow | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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