Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 27
The soldier wished to take away some token of the place; so he broke off a little branch, and there came a loud noise from the tree.
Who acts: soldier, son · What happens: wish, take away, break off, come · To what, where: token, little branch, loud noise, tree
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 (soldier, son), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 soldier | det |
| 2 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wished | nsubj |
| 3 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wished | xcomp |
| 6 | away | away | ADP | _ | 5 take | compound:prt |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 token | det |
| 8 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 token | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 broke | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 broke | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 broke | nsubj |
| 15 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wished | parataxis |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 broke | compound:prt |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 branch | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 branch | amod |
| 19 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 broke | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 came | cc |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 came | expl |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wished | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 noise | det |
| 25 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 noise | amod |
| 26 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 tree | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 tree | det |
| 29 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | the soldier | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take away not said to happen | to-infinitive | the soldier not said here | some token of the place | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent token=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break off | past | son | a little branch | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer branch=Patient | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the soldier not said here | a loud noise | the tree; there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location noise=Theme |
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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