Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 59
A year after, when the Queen brought her first-born into the world, the old woman took him away.
Who acts: Queen, old woman · What happens: bring, bear, take away · To what, where: world, King
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 (Queen, old woman), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | after | after | ADV | _ | 2 year | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 brought | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | nsubj |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 born | nmod:poss |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 born | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 first | punct |
| 12 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 brought | advcl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 born | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 woman | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 woman | amod |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | nsubj |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 born | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 took | obj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 took | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the Queen | year | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bear | participle | the Queen not said here | the world | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | take away | past | the old woman | King | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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