Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 29
But the bird set up such a loud scream that all the soldiers awoke, and they took him prisoner and carried him before the king.
Who acts: soldiers · What happens: set up, awake, take, carry · To what, where: bird, loud scream, fox
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldiers), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 scream | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scream | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bird | acl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 scream | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 scream | det |
| 8 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 scream | amod |
| 9 | scream | scream | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 awoke | obj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 soldiers | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 soldiers | det |
| 13 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 awoke | nsubj |
| 14 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 scream | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | nsubj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 awoke | ccomp |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | obj |
| 20 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 carried | cc |
| 22 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 took | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 carried | obj |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 king | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 scream | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set up | participle | the bird not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | awake | past | all soldiers | such loud scream | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past | soldiers = soldier | fox | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Theme prisoner=Destination | ||||
| 4 | carry | past | soldiers = soldier not said here | fox | before the king | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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