Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 82
Then the boy ran and told the King, who came with his sword, and swung it thrice over the Duck; and at the third time his bride stood before him, bright, living, and healthful, as she had been before.
Who acts: boy, King, bride · What happens: run, tell, come, swing, stand, live · To what, where: sword · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, King, bride), 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 | 4 ran | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 told | cc |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | ccomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 sword | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sword | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 swung | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 swung | cc |
| 17 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 swung | obj |
| 19 | thrice | thrice | ADV | _ | 17 swung | advmod |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 Duck | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Duck | det |
| 22 | Duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swung | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 stood | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 stood | cc |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 time | det |
| 27 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 28 time | amod |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stood | obl |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 bride | nmod:poss |
| 30 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stood | nsubj |
| 31 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 32 | before | before | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 stood | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 bright | punct |
| 35 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 stood | parataxis |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 living | punct |
| 37 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 bright | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 healthful | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 healthful | cc |
| 40 | healthful | healthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ran | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 before | punct |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 46 before | mark |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 before | nsubj |
| 44 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 before | aux |
| 45 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 46 before | cop |
| 46 | before | before | ADV | _ | 40 healthful | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the boy | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the boy not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the King | with King's sword | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | swing | past | the King not said here | sword | over the Duck; thrice property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme over duck=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | stand | past | King's bride | before King; time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | ||||
| 6 | live | gerund | King's bride not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is | past · perfect | bride | before property | 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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