Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 96
Then they went out all day long to their work, seeking for gold and silver in the mountains: but Snowdrop was left at home; and they warned her, and said, ‘The queen will soon find out where you are, so take care and let no one in.’
Who acts: feet, queen, you · What happens: go out, seek, leave, warn, say, find out · To what, where: mountains, Snowdrop, home, care, one · 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 (feet, queen, 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 work | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 work | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 work | nmod:poss |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seeking | punct |
| 12 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 gold | case |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seeking | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 silver | cc |
| 16 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gold | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 mountains | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mountains | det |
| 19 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 seeking | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 left | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 left | cc |
| 22 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 left | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 left | aux:pass |
| 24 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | parataxis |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 home | case |
| 26 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 left | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 warned | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 warned | cc |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 warned | nsubj |
| 30 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 warned | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 said | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 said | cc |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 warned | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 find | punct |
| 36 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 find | punct |
| 37 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 queen | det |
| 38 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 find | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 find | aux |
| 40 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 find | advmod |
| 41 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 said | ccomp |
| 42 | out | out | ADP | _ | 41 find | compound:prt |
| 43 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 41 find | ccomp |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 where | nsubj |
| 45 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 where | cop |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 take | punct |
| 47 | so | so | ADV | _ | 48 take | advmod |
| 48 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 warned | ccomp |
| 49 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 take | obj |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 let | cc |
| 51 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 take | conj |
| 52 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 53 one | det |
| 53 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 let | obj |
| 54 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 let | compound:prt |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 56 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | feet = foot | then; day | to feet's work; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | seek | gerund | feet = foot not said here | the mountains | for gold and silver | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for gold=Theme in mountain=Location | |||
| 3 | leave | past · passive | Snowdrop | home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 4 | warn speech: warn | past | feet = foot | SNOWDROP | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | feet = foot not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | find out | future | the queen | soon property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is | present | you | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | take | infinitive | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||||
| 9 | let in | infinitive | no one | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||||
| 10 | work | feet = foot | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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