Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 90
As soon as she arrived the King led her into a chamber which was full of straw; and, giving her a wheel and a reel, he said, "Now set yourself to work, and if you have not spun this straw into gold by an early hour to-morrow, you must die."
Who acts: daughter, King, chamber, you · What happens: arrive, lead, be, give, say, set · To what, where: daughter, chamber, wheel, yourself, you, gold · 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 (daughter, King, chamber, you), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 arrived | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 arrived | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 led | nsubj |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrived | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 led | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 chamber | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 chamber | det |
| 12 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 led | obl |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 full | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 full | cop |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 chamber | acl:relcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 straw | case |
| 17 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 full | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 said | cc |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 and | punct |
| 21 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 said | advcl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 giving | iobj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 wheel | det |
| 24 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 giving | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 reel | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 reel | det |
| 27 | reel | reel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wheel | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 giving | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 said | nsubj |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrived | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 set | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 set | punct |
| 33 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 set | advmod |
| 34 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 said | ccomp |
| 35 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 set | obj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 work | mark |
| 37 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 set | xcomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 spun | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 spun | cc |
| 40 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 44 spun | mark |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 spun | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 spun | aux |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 spun | advmod |
| 44 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 said | conj |
| 45 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 46 straw | det |
| 46 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 spun | obj |
| 47 | into | into | ADP | _ | 48 gold | case |
| 48 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 spun | obl |
| 49 | by | by | ADP | _ | 52 hour | case |
| 50 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 hour | det |
| 51 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 hour | amod |
| 52 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 spun | obl |
| 53 | to | to | ADP | _ | 55 morrow | case |
| 54 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 53 to | punct |
| 55 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 spun | obl |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 die | punct |
| 57 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 59 die | nsubj |
| 58 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 59 die | aux |
| 59 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 arrived | conj |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 59 die | punct |
| 61 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 59 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | daughter | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead | past | the King | daughter | a chamber | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into chamber=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | past | a chamber | of straw; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | gerund | King not said here | a wheel and a reel | daughter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient wheel=Theme | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | set in a quote | infinitive | yourself | now | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | work in a quote | to-infinitive | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | not spin a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · perfect · passive | you | gold | hour | to morrow | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme straw=Result | ||
| 9 | die in a quote | must | you | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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