Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 70
Then he was taken away with great honor, and a fine house was appointed him to dwell in.
What happens: take away, appoint, dwell in · To what, where: King, fine house
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 taken | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taken | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 taken | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 honor | case |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 honor | amod |
| 8 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 appointed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 appointed | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 12 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 house | amod |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 appointed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 appointed | aux:pass |
| 15 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 taken | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 appointed | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 dwell | mark |
| 18 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 appointed | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 dwell | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | past · passive | King | then | with great honor; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | appoint | past · passive | a fine house | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme he=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | dwell in | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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