Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 57

With that he could wait no longer: so he gave his wife the hatchet, and cried, ‘Wife, strike at the bird and kill her in my hand.’

Who acts: cruelty · What happens: wait, give, cry, kill · To what, where: hatchet, wife, hand

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 (cruelty), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 wait	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wait	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 wait	aux
5	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	no	no	ADV	_	7 longer	advmod
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 wait	advmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 gave	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 gave	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wait	parataxis
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hatchet	det
15	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cried	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cried	cc
18	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gave	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Wife	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 Wife	punct
21	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cried	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 strike	punct
23	strike	strike	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Wife	conj
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 bird	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bird	det
26	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cried	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 kill	cc
28	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wait	conj
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 kill	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 hand	case
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 hand	nmod:poss
32	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 kill	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wait	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	could	cruelty				with that; long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	past	cruelty	the hatchet	cruelty's wife			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient hatchet=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	cruelty not said here	Wife and strike			at the bird	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bird=Location
4	kill	infinitive	cruelty not said here	wife		my hand		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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