Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 36
They gave her wine to drink, three glasses full, one of white wine, one of red, and one of yellow, and with that her heart gave way and she died.
Who acts: words, heart, crew · What happens: give, drink, die · To what, where: wine, crew, way
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 (words, heart, crew), 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 | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 drink | mark |
| 6 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wine | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 glasses | punct |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 glasses | nummod |
| 9 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gave | obl |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 glasses | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 glasses | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 wine | case |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wine | amod |
| 15 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 one | punct |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 one | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 red | case |
| 19 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 one | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 one | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 one | cc |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 gave | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 yellow | case |
| 24 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 one | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 gave | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 gave | cc |
| 27 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 31 gave | mark |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 gave | mark |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 heart | nmod:poss |
| 30 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gave | nsubj |
| 31 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 32 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gave | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 died | cc |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 died | nsubj |
| 35 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 gave | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | words = word | wine | crew | three glasses obl; one of yellow obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient wine=Theme | ||
| 2 | drink | to-infinitive | words = word not said here | wine not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give | past | crew's heart | way | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die | past | crew | 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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