Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 30
Thereupon the old woman led her behind a large cask, which quite hid her from view.
Who acts: old woman, large cask · What happens: lead, hide · To what, where: girl, large cask, view
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, large cask), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 5 led | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 led | nsubj |
| 5 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 led | obj |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 10 cask | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cask | det |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cask | amod |
| 10 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 led | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hid | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 hid | nsubj |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 14 hid | advmod |
| 14 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cask | acl:relcl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hid | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 view | case |
| 17 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hid | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the old woman | girl | a large cask | thereupon property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme behind cask=Destination | ||
| 2 | hide | past | a large cask | girl | view | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent she=Patient from view=Beneficiary |
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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