Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 48
At last the huntsman himself climbed the tree and brought down the Maiden, and took her before the King.
Who acts: Maiden sat. · What happens: climb, bring down, take · To what, where: tree, last huntsman, Maiden
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 (Maiden sat.), 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 | ADP | _ | 4 huntsman | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 huntsman | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 huntsman | det |
| 4 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 climbed | obl |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 climbed | nsubj |
| 6 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 climbed | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 brought | cc |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 climbed | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 brought | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Maiden | det |
| 13 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 climbed | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | obj |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 King | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | Maiden sat. = saturday | the tree | the last huntsman | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring down | past | Maiden sat. = saturday not said here | the Maiden | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument maiden=Destination | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Maiden sat. = saturday not said here | maiden | before the King | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme before king=Destination |
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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