Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 16

Just as he was going to lie down, the eldest of the princesses brought him a cup of wine; but the soldier threw it all away secretly, taking care not to drink a drop.

Who acts: king, eldest, soldier · What happens: go, lie down, bring, throw, take, not drink · To what, where: cup, king, care, drop

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, eldest, soldier), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	5 going	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 going	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 going	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 brought	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lie	mark
7	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 going	xcomp
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 lie	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eldest	det
11	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 brought	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 princesses	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 princesses	det
14	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 eldest	obl
15	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 brought	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cup	det
18	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 brought	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 wine	case
20	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cup	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 threw	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 threw	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 soldier	det
24	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 threw	nsubj
25	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 brought	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 threw	obj
27	all	all	ADV	_	28 away	advmod
28	away	away	ADV	_	25 threw	advmod
29	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	25 threw	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 taking	punct
31	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 threw	advcl
32	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 taking	obj
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 drink	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 drink	mark
35	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 taking	advcl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 drop	det
37	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 drink	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	king				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lie down	to-infinitive	king not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bring	past	the eldest	a cup of wine	king		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination cup=Theme
4	throw	past	the soldier	cup		away, secretly property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	take	gerund	the soldier not said here	care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
6	not drink	to-infinitive	the soldier not said here	a drop			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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