Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 13

He became afraid, soon, that the step-mother might not treat his children very well, and might even do them some great injury, so he took them away to a lonely castle which stood in the midst of a forest.

Who acts: King, step mother, lonely castle · What happens: become, not treat, do, take away, stand · To what, where: children, midst

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, step mother, lonely castle), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 became	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 soon	punct
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 afraid	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 treat	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 treat	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
9	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mother	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 step	punct
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 treat	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 treat	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 treat	advmod
14	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 became	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 children	nmod:poss
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 treat	obj
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 well	advmod
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 treat	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 do	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 do	cc
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 do	aux
22	even	even	ADV	_	23 do	advmod
23	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 treat	parataxis
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 do	obj
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 injury	det
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 injury	amod
27	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 do	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 took	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	31 took	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 took	nsubj
31	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 became	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 took	obj
33	away	away	ADV	_	31 took	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 castle	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 castle	det
36	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 castle	amod
37	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 took	obl
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 stood	nsubj
39	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 castle	acl:relcl
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 midst	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 midst	det
42	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 stood	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 forest	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 forest	det
45	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 midst	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	King				afraid property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	not treat	might	the step mother		King's children		well property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient
3	do	might		children = child				tree rules
4	take away	past	King	children = child			to a lonely castle; away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	stand	past	a lonely castle			the midst of a forest		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in midst=Location

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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