Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 19
This she tied to him, and taking the other end in her hand, she led him away, and they travelled deeper and deeper into the forest.
Who acts: This, Sister, rushes · What happens: tie, take, lead away, travel · To what, where: brother, other end, hand, forest
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Sister, rushes), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 tied | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tied | nsubj |
| 3 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tied | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 taking | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 taking | cc |
| 8 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 tied | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 end | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 end | amod |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taking | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taking | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 led | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 led | nsubj |
| 17 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tied | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 led | obj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 led | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 travelled | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 travelled | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 travelled | nsubj |
| 23 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 led | conj |
| 24 | deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 travelled | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 deeper | cc |
| 26 | deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 deeper | conj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 forest | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 forest | det |
| 29 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 travelled | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past | This | brother | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to he=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | This not said here | the other end | Sister's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent end=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 3 | lead away | past | Sister | brother | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | travel | past | rushes = rush | the forest | deep property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into forest=Destination |
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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