Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 25

At the third knock the door sprang open; and, when he had stilled the lions with the bread, he walked into a fine, large hall, where sat several enchanted Princes, from whose fingers he drew off the rings, and he also took away with him a sword and some bread which lay there.

Who acts: door, sword · What happens: knock, spring, still, walk, sit, enchant · To what, where: lions, fine large hall, several enchanted Princes, rings, sword

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, sword), 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	At	at	SCONJ	_	4 knock	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 third	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 knock	advmod
4	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 walked	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sprang	nsubj
7	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knock	ccomp
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sprang	xcomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 stilled	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stilled	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stilled	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 stilled	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stilled	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stilled	aux
15	stilled	still	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 knock	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lions	det
17	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stilled	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 bread	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bread	det
20	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lions	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knock	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 walked	nsubj
23	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	into	into	ADP	_	29 hall	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 hall	det
26	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hall	amod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fine	punct
28	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hall	amod
29	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 walked	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sat	punct
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 sat	advmod
32	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 hall	acl:relcl
33	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Princes	amod
34	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 Princes	amod
35	Princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sat	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 fingers	punct
37	from	from	ADP	_	39 fingers	case
38	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	39 fingers	nmod:poss
39	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 Princes	appos
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 drew	nsubj
41	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 fingers	acl:relcl
42	off	off	ADP	_	44 rings	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 rings	det
44	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 drew	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 took	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 took	cc
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 took	nsubj
48	also	also	ADV	_	49 took	advmod
49	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 walked	conj
50	away	away	ADV	_	49 took	advmod
51	with	with	ADP	_	52 him	case
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 took	obl
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 sword	det
54	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 took	obj
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 bread	cc
56	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	57 bread	det
57	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 sword	conj
58	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 lay	nsubj
59	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 sword	acl:relcl
60	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	59 lay	advmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	knock	infinitive	door not said here				tree rules
2	spring	past	the door			open property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	still	past · perfect	door	the lions		with the bread	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent lion=Patient with bread=Instrument
4	walk	past	door			into a fine large hall result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into hall=Result
5	sit	past		several enchanted Princes			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prince=Theme
6	enchant	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	draw off	past	door	the rings			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme
8	take away	past	door	a sword and some bread		with Prince; away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
9	lie	past	a sword and some bread		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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