Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 74
They delivered him up to justice, and he and all his murderous band were condemned to death for their wicked deeds.
Who acts: guests · What happens: deliver up, condemn · To what, where: finger, justice
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 (guests), 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 delivered | nsubj |
| 2 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 delivered | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 delivered | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 justice | case |
| 6 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 delivered | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 condemned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 condemned | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 condemned | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 band | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 band | det:predet |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 band | nmod:poss |
| 13 | murderous | murderous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 band | amod |
| 14 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 he | conj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 condemned | aux:pass |
| 16 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 delivered | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 death | case |
| 18 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 condemned | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 deeds | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 deeds | amod |
| 22 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 condemned | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 delivered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver up | past | guests = guest | finger | justice | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to justice=Destination | |||
| 2 | condemn | past · passive | finger | to death; for guests's wicked deeds | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for deed=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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