Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 68
When she had concluded, the King was overcome with joy, and the wicked stepmother was led to the scaffold and bound to the stake and burnt to ashes.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: conclude, overcome, lead, bind, burnt · To what, where: King, wicked stepmother, scaffold
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 concluded | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 concluded | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 concluded | aux |
| 4 | concluded | conclude | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 overcome | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 overcome | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 overcome | aux:pass |
| 9 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 concluded | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 joy | case |
| 11 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 overcome | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 led | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 led | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stepmother | det |
| 15 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stepmother | amod |
| 16 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 led | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 led | aux:pass |
| 18 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 overcome | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 scaffold | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 scaffold | det |
| 21 | scaffold | scaffold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 led | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bound | cc |
| 23 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 led | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 stake | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 stake | det |
| 26 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bound | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 burnt | cc |
| 28 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 bound | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 ashes | case |
| 30 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 burnt | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 concluded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conclude | past · perfect | Queen | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | overcome | past · passive | the King | with joy | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lead | past · passive | the wicked stepmother | the scaffold | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to scaffold=Destination | ||||
| 4 | bind | participle | to the stake | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to stake=Co-Patient | |||||
| 5 | burnt | participle | to ashes | tree rules |
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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