Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 124
And when they took it away she got well, and told them all that had passed; and they warned her once more not to open the door to anyone.
Who acts: dwarfs, SNOWDROP, that · What happens: take away, get, tell, pass, warn, not open · To what, where: comb, dwarfs, SNOWDROP, door, anyone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarfs, SNOWDROP, that), 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 | _ | 8 got | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 took | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 got | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 told | cc |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | iobj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 passed | det:predet |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 passed | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 passed | aux |
| 17 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 told | ccomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 warned | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 warned | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 warned | nsubj |
| 21 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 warned | obj |
| 23 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 more | advmod |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 not | advmod |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 open | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 open | mark |
| 27 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 warned | ccomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 door | det |
| 29 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 open | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 anyone | case |
| 31 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 27 open | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | past | dwarfs = dwarf | comb | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | past | SNOWDROP | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | SNOWDROP not said here | dwarfs = dwarf | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | pass | past · perfect | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | warn speech: warn | past | dwarfs = dwarf | SNOWDROP | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | not open | to-infinitive | the door | anyone | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Patient to anyone=Recipient |
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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