Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 53
Then he put around her his cloak, and, placing her before him on his horse, took her to his castle.
Who acts: King · What happens: put, place, take · To what, where: cloak, maiden, castle
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), 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 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 placing | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 placing | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 placing | punct |
| 11 | placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 put | advcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 placing | obj |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 placing | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 horse | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 horse | nmod:poss |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 placing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 took | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 castle | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 castle | nmod:poss |
| 23 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | King | King's cloak | then | around maiden | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme around she=Destination | ||
| 2 | place | gerund | King not said here | maiden | before King | on King's horse | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent her=Theme on horse=Destination | ||
| 3 | take | past | King not said here | maiden | King's castle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to castle=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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