Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 37
So the rogues went: and when they found what these yellow buttons were, they took them all away, and left her plenty of plates and dishes.
Who acts: rogues, buttons · What happens: go, find, take, leave · To what, where: rogues, plenty
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rogues, buttons), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rogues | det |
| 3 | rogues | rogue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 found | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 found | obj |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 buttons | det |
| 12 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 buttons | amod |
| 13 | buttons | button | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 were | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | obj |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 away | advmod |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 took | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 left | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 left | cc |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 took | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 plenty | nmod:poss |
| 25 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 left | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 plates | case |
| 27 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 plenty | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 dishes | cc |
| 29 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 plates | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the rogues | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | rogues = rogue | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take | past | buttons = button | rogues = rogue | away property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | leave | past | buttons = button not said here | Frederick's plenty of plates and dishes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=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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