Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 37

And taking him by the hand, she led him in; for she was the lady's maid.

Who acts: maid · What happens: take, lead, be · To what, where: John

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 taking	cc
2	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 led	csubj
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 taking	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 hand	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hand	det
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 taking	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 taking	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 led	nsubj
9	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 led	obj
11	in	in	ADV	_	9 led	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 maid	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	19 maid	case
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 maid	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 maid	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lady	det
17	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 maid	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 lady	case
19	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 led	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	gerund			John	by the hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	lead	past	maid	John			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	is	past	maid			for the lady's maid	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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