Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 50
And in the morning he awoke and the hill was gone; so he went merrily to the king, and told him that now that it was removed he must give him the princess.
Who acts: fox, hill · What happens: awake, be, go, tell, remove, give · To what, where: fox, hill, princess, king · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fox, hill), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 awoke | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 awoke | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 awoke | nsubj |
| 6 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gone | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hill | det |
| 9 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gone | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gone | cop |
| 11 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 awoke | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 awoke | conj |
| 16 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 king | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 told | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 told | cc |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 awoke | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 told | iobj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 removed | mark |
| 25 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 removed | advmod |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 removed | mark |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 removed | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 removed | aux:pass |
| 29 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 give | advcl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 give | nsubj |
| 31 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 give | aux |
| 32 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 told | ccomp |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 give | iobj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 princess | det |
| 35 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 give | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | fox | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the hill | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | past | fox | to the king; merrily property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | fox not said here | fox | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | remove | past · passive | hill | now | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | give | must | fox | the princess | king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient princess=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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