Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 44

However, on the third night the soldier carried away one of the golden cups as a token of where he had been.

Who acts: soldier, thing · What happens: carry away, be · To what, where: one

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, thing), 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	However	however	ADV	_	9 carried	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 night	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
5	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 night	amod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carried	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 soldier	det
8	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carried	nsubj
9	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 carried	advmod
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 carried	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 cups	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cups	det
14	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cups	amod
15	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 one	nmod
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 token	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 token	det
18	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carried	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 where	case
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 token	nmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 been	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 been	aux
23	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 where	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry away	past	the soldier	one of the golden cups			night	as a token; away, however property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	be	past · perfect	thing						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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