Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 42
They then took leave of the king, and got into the coach with eight horses, and all set out, full of joy and merriment, for the prince’s kingdom, which they reached safely; and there they lived happily a great many years.
Who acts: princess sat., kingdom · What happens: take, get, set out, reach, live · To what, where: leave, coach
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Frog-prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess sat., kingdom), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 got | cc |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 coach | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 coach | det |
| 13 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 horses | case |
| 15 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 horses | nummod |
| 16 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 got | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 set | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 set | cc |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 set | advmod |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 set | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 full | punct |
| 23 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 set | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 joy | case |
| 25 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 full | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 merriment | cc |
| 27 | merriment | merriment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 joy | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 kingdom | punct |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 kingdom | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 prince | det |
| 31 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 prince | case |
| 33 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 reached | punct |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 reached | nsubj |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 reached | nsubj |
| 37 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 kingdom | acl:relcl |
| 38 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 37 reached | advmod |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 lived | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 there | cc |
| 41 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 43 lived | advmod |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 lived | nsubj |
| 43 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 44 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 43 lived | advmod |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 years | det |
| 46 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 years | amod |
| 47 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 years | amod |
| 48 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | princess sat. = saturday | leave of the king | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | past | princess sat. = saturday not said here | the coach | with eight horses | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into coach=Destination | |||
| 3 | set out | participle | princess sat. = saturday not said here | all property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reach | past | the prince's kingdom | safely property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | live | past | princess sat. = saturday | there | year | happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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