Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 160
Then the old man, leading him back into the castle, showed him three chests full of gold in a cellar. "
Who acts: old man · What happens: lead back, show · To what, where: man, castle, three chests, youth, cellar
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 (old man), 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 man | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 showed | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 leading | punct |
| 6 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 man | acl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 leading | obj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 leading | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 castle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leading | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 13 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 showed | iobj |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 chests | nummod |
| 16 | chests | chest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 showed | obj |
| 17 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 chests | amod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 gold | case |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 full | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 cellar | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cellar | det |
| 22 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 showed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 showed | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead back | gerund | the old man not said here | man | the castle | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into castle=Destination | |||
| 2 | show | past | the old man | three chests | youth | a cellar | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient chest=Topic |
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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