Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 93
Bearskin took a ring off his finger, broke it in two, and, giving the youngest daughter one half, he kept the other for himself.
Who acts: Bearskin · What happens: take, break, give, keep · To what, where: ring, finger, two, one half, youngest daughter, other
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 (Bearskin), 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 | Bearskin | Bearskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ring | det |
| 4 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 finger | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 finger | nmod:poss |
| 7 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 broke | punct |
| 9 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 broke | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 two | case |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 broke | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 kept | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 kept | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 giving | punct |
| 16 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 kept | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 daughter | det |
| 18 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 daughter | amod |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 giving | obj |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 half | nummod |
| 21 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 16 giving | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 giving | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 kept | nsubj |
| 24 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 other | det |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 kept | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 himself | case |
| 28 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 kept | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Bearskin | a ring | BEARSKIN's finger | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ring=Theme off finger=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | break | past | Bearskin not said here | ring | two | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | |||
| 3 | give | gerund | BEARSKIN not said here | one half | the youngest daughter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient half=Theme | |||
| 4 | keep | past | BEARSKIN | the other | for BEARSKIN | tree rules |
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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