Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 4
So that there could be no disagreement as to the way each one should go, the King conducted them to the courtyard of the Palace, and there blew three feathers, by turn, into the air, telling his sons to follow the course that the three feathers took.
Who acts: one, King, three feathers · What happens: be, go, conduct, blow, tell, follow · To what, where: disagreement, way, sons, courtyard, three feathers, air · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (one, King, three feathers), 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 disagreement | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 be | mark |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 be | expl |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 be | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 disagreement | cop |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 disagreement | det |
| 7 | disagreement | disagreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 conducted | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 11 way | case |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 as | fixed |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 disagreement | nmod |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 way | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 disagreement | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 conducted | nsubj |
| 19 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 conducted | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 courtyard | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 courtyard | det |
| 23 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 conducted | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Palace | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Palace | det |
| 26 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 courtyard | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 blew | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 blew | cc |
| 29 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 30 blew | expl |
| 30 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 conducted | conj |
| 31 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 feathers | nummod |
| 32 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 blew | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 turn | punct |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 turn | case |
| 35 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 blew | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 air | punct |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 air | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 air | det |
| 39 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 blew | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 telling | punct |
| 41 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 blew | advcl |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 sons | nmod:poss |
| 43 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 telling | obj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 follow | mark |
| 45 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 telling | xcomp |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 course | det |
| 47 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 follow | obj |
| 48 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 52 took | mark |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 feathers | det |
| 50 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 51 feathers | nummod |
| 51 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 took | nsubj |
| 52 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 course | acl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 conducted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | no disagreement | as the way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | should | each one | the way not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 3 | conduct | past | the King | sons = son | the courtyard of the Palace | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to courtyard=Destination | |||
| 4 | blow | past | the King not said here | three feathers | the air; there | by turn | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent feather=Material into air=Product | ||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the King not said here | King's sons | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent son=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | follow not said to happen | to-infinitive | the King not said here | the course | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Theme | ||||
| 7 | take | past | the three feathers | the course not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=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: «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/10/4/