Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 115

He stole my treasure, and compelled me to roam the woods transformed into a big bear until his death should set me free.

Who acts: son, death, my · What happens: steal, compel, roam, transform, set, treasure · To what, where: treasure, me, woods, big bear

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, death, my), 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 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 treasure	nmod:poss
4	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 compelled	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 compelled	cc
7	compelled	compel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stole	conj
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 compelled	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 roam	mark
10	roam	roam	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 compelled	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woods	det
12	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 roam	obj
13	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 woods	acl
14	into	into	ADP	_	17 bear	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bear	det
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bear	amod
17	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 transformed	obl
18	until	until	SCONJ	_	22 set	mark
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 death	nmod:poss
20	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 set	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 set	aux
22	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 roam	advcl
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 set	obj
24	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 set	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	steal	past	son	my treasure		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location treasure=Theme
2	compel	past	son not said here	me		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Patient clause=Result
3	roam	to-infinitive	son not said here	the woods		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Trajectory
4	transform	participle		the woods not said here	into a big bear result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into bear=Result
5	set	should	son's death	me	free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result
6	treasure		my			nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent
7	die		son			nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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