Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 42
The young man kissed the maiden and drove off to bring her to the King.
Who acts: young man · What happens: kiss, drive off, bring · To what, where: change, 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 (young man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kissed | nsubj |
| 4 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maiden | det |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kissed | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drove | cc |
| 8 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kissed | conj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 drove | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 bring | mark |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 drove | advcl |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 King | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | the young man | maiden property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | drive off | past | the young man not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | the young man not said here | change | the King | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=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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