Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 55
Her daughter being at hand, they carried the weak Queen between them into the room, and laid her in the bath, and then, shutting the door, they ran off; but first they made up an immense fire in the stove, which must soon suffocate the poor young Queen.
Who acts: daughter, envy, stove · What happens: be, carry, lay, shut, run off, make up · To what, where: hand, weak Queen, room, Queen, bath, door
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 (daughter, envy, stove), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hand | nmod:poss |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hand | nsubj |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hand | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 hand | case |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hand | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 carried | nsubj |
| 8 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Queen | det |
| 10 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Queen | amod |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | obj |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 carried | obl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 room | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 room | det |
| 16 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 laid | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 laid | cc |
| 19 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 carried | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 laid | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 bath | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bath | det |
| 23 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 laid | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 shutting | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 shutting | cc |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 shutting | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 shutting | punct |
| 28 | shutting | shut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 carried | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 door | det |
| 30 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shutting | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 ran | punct |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 ran | nsubj |
| 33 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 carried | conj |
| 34 | off | off | ADP | _ | 33 ran | compound:prt |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 made | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 made | cc |
| 37 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 39 made | advmod |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 made | nsubj |
| 39 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 carried | conj |
| 40 | up | up | ADP | _ | 39 made | compound:prt |
| 41 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 fire | det |
| 42 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 fire | amod |
| 43 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 made | obj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 stove | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 stove | det |
| 46 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 made | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 suffocate | punct |
| 48 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 suffocate | nsubj |
| 49 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 suffocate | aux |
| 50 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 51 suffocate | advmod |
| 51 | suffocate | suffocate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 stove | acl:relcl |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 Queen | det |
| 53 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 Queen | amod |
| 54 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 Queen | amod |
| 55 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 suffocate | obj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | daughter | Queen's hand | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | envy | the weak Queen | the room | between children = child | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme | ||
| 3 | lay | past | envy not said here | Queen | the bath | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in bath=Destination | |||
| 4 | shut | gerund | envy not said here | the door | then | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||
| 5 | run off | past | envy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | make up | past | envy | a immense fire | the stove | first property | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fire=Pivot | ||
| 7 | suffocate | must | the stove | the poor young Queen | soon property | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent queen=Patient |
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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