Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 86
Then he sprang up hastily, raised her up and bore her to a chamber, where he laid her down, kneeled beside her, and drawing the three drops of blood out of her right breast, threw them away.
Who acts: John · What happens: spring up, raise up, bear, lay down, kneele, draw · To what, where: bride, three drops, right breast, drops
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 (John), 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 | 3 sprang | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 sprang | compound:prt |
| 5 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 3 sprang | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 raised | punct |
| 7 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | parataxis |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 raised | obj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 raised | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bore | cc |
| 11 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 raised | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bore | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 chamber | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 chamber | det |
| 15 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bore | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 laid | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 laid | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 laid | nsubj |
| 19 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 chamber | acl:relcl |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 laid | obj |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 laid | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 kneeled | punct |
| 23 | kneeled | kneele | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 laid | conj |
| 24 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 kneeled | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 threw | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 threw | cc |
| 28 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 threw | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 drops | det |
| 30 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 drops | nummod |
| 31 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 drawing | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 blood | case |
| 33 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 drops | nmod |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 breast | case |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 breast | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 breast | nmod:poss |
| 37 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 breast | amod |
| 38 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 drawing | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 drawing | punct |
| 40 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | conj |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 threw | obj |
| 42 | away | away | ADV | _ | 40 threw | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | John | then | hastily property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | raise up | past | bride | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bear | past | bride | to a chamber | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 4 | lay down | past | John | bride | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Result | ||||
| 5 | kneele | participle | John not said here | beside bride | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | draw | gerund | the three drops of blood | bride's right breast | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent drop=Theme out breast=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | throw away | past | John not said here | drops = drop | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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