Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 66
They gave her three kinds of wine to drink, white, red, and yellow, and with that she died.’
Who acts: robbers, girl · What happens: give, drink, die · To what, where: three kinds, girl, white
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 (robbers, girl), 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 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 kinds | nummod |
| 5 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wine | case |
| 7 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kinds | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 drink | mark |
| 9 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 gave | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 white | punct |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 drink | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 red | punct |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 white | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 yellow | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 yellow | cc |
| 16 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 white | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 died | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 died | cc |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 that | case |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 died | obl |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 died | nsubj |
| 22 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | robbers = robber | three kinds of wine | girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient kind=Theme | |||
| 2 | drink | to-infinitive | robbers = robber not said here | white | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent white=Patient | ||||
| 3 | die | past | girl | with that | 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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