Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 38
As he took up the golden saddle the groom awoke and cried out so loud, that all the guards ran in and took him prisoner, and in the morning he was again brought before the court to be judged, and was sentenced to die.
Who acts: son, groom, guards · What happens: take up, awake, cry out, run, take, bring · To what, where: golden saddle, son, court
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 (son, groom, guards), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 took | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 saddle | det |
| 6 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 saddle | amod |
| 7 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 groom | det |
| 9 | groom | groom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 awoke | nsubj |
| 10 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saddle | acl:relcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cried | cc |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 cried | compound:prt |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 loud | advmod |
| 15 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 12 cried | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ran | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 ran | mark |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 guards | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 guards | det |
| 20 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 ran | nsubj |
| 21 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cried | parataxis |
| 22 | in | in | ADV | _ | 21 ran | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 took | cc |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ran | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 took | obj |
| 26 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 brought | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 brought | cc |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 morning | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 morning | det |
| 31 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 brought | obl |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 brought | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 brought | aux:pass |
| 34 | again | again | ADV | _ | 35 brought | advmod |
| 35 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 36 | before | before | ADP | _ | 38 court | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 court | det |
| 38 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 brought | obl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 judged | mark |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 judged | aux:pass |
| 41 | judged | judge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 court | acl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 sentenced | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 sentenced | cc |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 sentenced | aux:pass |
| 45 | sentenced | sentence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 die | mark |
| 47 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 sentenced | xcomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | son | the golden saddle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saddle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | awake | past | the groom | the golden saddle not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location saddle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | son not said here | loud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | run | past | all guards | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | take | past | all guards not said here | son | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Theme prisoner=Destination | ||||
| 6 | bring | past · passive | son | the court | again; morning | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before court=Destination | |||
| 7 | judge | to-infinitive · passive | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S» | ||||||
| 8 | sentence | past · passive | son not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | die | to-infinitive | son not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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