Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 145
Then the six men came in again and bore it away. "
Who acts: six men · What happens: come in, bear away · To what, where: lid
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (six men), 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 | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 3 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 men | nummod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bore | cc |
| 9 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bore | obj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 bore | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | the six men | then; again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bear away | past | the six men not said here | lid | away property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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