Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 111
Nobody knew him; the father took him for some celebrated general, and led him into the room where his daughters were.
Who acts: Nobody, father, daughters · What happens: know, take, celebrate, lead, be · To what, where: BEARSKIN, room
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nobody, father, daughters), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | obj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 father | det |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | parataxis |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 general | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 general | det |
| 11 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 general | amod |
| 12 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 led | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 led | cc |
| 15 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 led | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 room | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 room | det |
| 19 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 were | advmod |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 22 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 were | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 room | acl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Nobody | BEARSKIN | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the father | BEARSKIN | for some celebrated general | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for general=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | celebrate | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | lead | past | the father not said here | BEARSKIN | the room | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into room=Destination | |||
| 5 | be | past | BEARSKIN's daughters | 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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