Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 111
Then he led her to a chamber in his palace where there was a great heap of straw, and gave her a spinning-wheel, and said, ‘All this must be spun into gold before morning, as you love your life.’
Who acts: king, you · What happens: lead, give, say, spin, love · To what, where: miller, chamber, spinning wheel, this, gold, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 led | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 chamber | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 chamber | det |
| 7 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 palace | nmod:poss |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chamber | nmod |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 was | advmod |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 palace | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 heap | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 heap | amod |
| 16 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 straw | case |
| 18 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heap | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gave | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gave | cc |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gave | iobj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 wheel | det |
| 24 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wheel | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 spinning | punct |
| 26 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 said | cc |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 spun | punct |
| 31 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 spun | punct |
| 32 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 this | det:predet |
| 33 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 spun | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 spun | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 spun | aux:pass |
| 36 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 said | ccomp |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 gold | case |
| 38 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 spun | obl |
| 39 | before | before | ADP | _ | 40 morning | case |
| 40 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 spun | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 love | punct |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 love | mark |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 love | nsubj |
| 44 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 spun | conj |
| 45 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 life | nmod:poss |
| 46 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 love | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 48 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | king | miller | a chamber in king's palace | then | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to chamber=Destination | ||
| 2 | give | past | king not said here | a spinning wheel | miller | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient wheel=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | spin | must · passive | this | gold | morning | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into gold=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | love | present | you | your life | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus |
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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