Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 51
And now the two sat down to the table together, but the miller’s wife was frightened to death, and went to bed and took all the keys with her.
Who acts: two · What happens: sit down, frighten, go, take · To what, where: wife, bed, keys
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Peasant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sat | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 two | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 two | det |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 sat | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 table | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 table | det |
| 9 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 sat | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 frightened | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 frightened | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 miller | det |
| 14 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 miller | case |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 frightened | aux:pass |
| 18 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sat | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 death | case |
| 20 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 frightened | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 went | cc |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 bed | case |
| 25 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 went | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 took | cc |
| 27 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 went | conj |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 keys | det:predet |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 keys | det |
| 30 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 took | obj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 her | case |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 took | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | the two | to the table; together property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | frighten | past · passive | the miller's wife | to death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the two not said here | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the two not said here | all keys | with wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme |
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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