Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 35
With that they went into the castle together, and found a great many servants there, and the rooms all richly furnished, and full of golden chairs and tables; and behind the castle was a garden, and around it was a park half a mile long, full of sheep, and goats, and hares, and deer; and in the courtyard were stables and cow-houses.
Who acts: parlour, castle · What happens: go, find, furnish, be · To what, where: goats, castle, great many servants, rooms, garden, park
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parlour, castle), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 went | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 servants | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 servants | amod |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 servants | amod |
| 15 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 found | obj |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 servants | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 furnished | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 furnished | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rooms | det |
| 20 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 furnished | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 furnished | advmod |
| 22 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 23 furnished | advmod |
| 23 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 found | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 full | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 full | cc |
| 26 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 furnished | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 chairs | case |
| 28 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 chairs | amod |
| 29 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 full | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 tables | cc |
| 31 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 chairs | conj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 garden | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 garden | cc |
| 34 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 36 castle | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 castle | det |
| 36 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 garden | obl |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 garden | cop |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 garden | det |
| 39 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 park | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 park | cc |
| 42 | around | around | ADP | _ | 46 park | case |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 park | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 park | cop |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 park | det |
| 46 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | parataxis |
| 47 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 49 mile | det:predet |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 mile | det |
| 49 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 long | obl:unmarked |
| 50 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 park | amod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 full | punct |
| 52 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 park | parataxis |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 sheep | case |
| 54 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 full | obl |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 goats | punct |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 goats | cc |
| 57 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | obl |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 hares | punct |
| 59 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 hares | cc |
| 60 | hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 goats | conj |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 deer | punct |
| 62 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 63 deer | cc |
| 63 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 goats | conj |
| 64 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 70 stables | punct |
| 65 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 70 stables | cc |
| 66 | in | in | ADP | _ | 68 courtyard | case |
| 67 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 68 courtyard | det |
| 68 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 70 stables | obl |
| 69 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 70 stables | cop |
| 70 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | obl |
| 71 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 74 houses | cc |
| 72 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 74 houses | compound |
| 73 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 72 cow | punct |
| 74 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 70 stables | conj |
| 75 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | parlour | goats and hares and deer | the castle | with that; together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | find | past | a great many servants | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Topic | |||||
| 3 | furnish | participle · passive | the rooms | all, richly property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | a garden | the castle | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | castle | a park | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | stables and cow houses | the courtyard | tree rules |
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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