Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 32
Therefore, finding an old iron ring belonging to some harness, they took that to the King.
Who acts: brothers, old iron ring · What happens: find, belong, take · To what, where: old iron ring, that, King
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, old iron ring), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 finding | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Therefore | punct |
| 3 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 took | advcl |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ring | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ring | amod |
| 6 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ring | compound |
| 7 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finding | obj |
| 8 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 ring | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 harness | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 harness | det |
| 11 | harness | harness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 belonging | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 finding | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 King | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | brothers = brother not said here | a old iron ring | therefore property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic | |||
| 2 | belong | gerund | a old iron ring not said here | to some harness | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | brothers = brother | that | the King | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme to king=Destination |
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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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