Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 22
When he had gone away, she had a little hind brought to her, and ordered her to be killed, and took her heart and tongue, and laid them on a plate, and when she saw the old man coming, she said to the boy: ‘Lie down in your bed, and draw the clothes over you.’
Who acts: cook, thought, little hind, old man · What happens: go away, have, bring, order, kill, take · To what, where: thought, heart, hearts, plate, old man, bed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook, thought, little hind, old man), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 gone | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 had | advcl |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 gone | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hind | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hind | amod |
| 11 | hind | hind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | nsubj |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ordered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ordered | cc |
| 17 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | advcl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ordered | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 killed | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 killed | aux:pass |
| 21 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 ordered | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 took | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 took | cc |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | conj |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 heart | nmod:poss |
| 26 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 tongue | cc |
| 28 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 heart | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 laid | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 laid | cc |
| 31 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 took | conj |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 laid | obj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 plate | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 plate | det |
| 35 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 laid | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 saw | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 saw | cc |
| 38 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 saw | advmod |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 saw | nsubj |
| 40 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 took | parataxis |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 man | det |
| 42 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 man | amod |
| 43 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 saw | obj |
| 44 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 man | acl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 said | punct |
| 46 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 said | nsubj |
| 47 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 saw | conj |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 boy | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 boy | det |
| 50 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 said | obl |
| 51 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 53 Lie | punct |
| 52 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 53 Lie | punct |
| 53 | Lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 said | ccomp |
| 54 | down | down | ADP | _ | 53 Lie | compound:prt |
| 55 | in | in | ADP | _ | 57 bed | case |
| 56 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 bed | nmod:poss |
| 57 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 Lie | obl |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 draw | punct |
| 59 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 draw | cc |
| 60 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 53 Lie | conj |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 clothes | det |
| 62 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 60 draw | obj |
| 63 | over | over | ADP | _ | 64 you | case |
| 64 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 60 draw | obl |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 66 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past · perfect | cook | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | thought | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bring | past | a little hind | thought | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to she=Destination | ||||
| 4 | order | past | thought not said here | thought | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | thought not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 6 | take | past | thought not said here | thought's heart and tongue | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | ||||
| 7 | lay | past | thought not said here | hearts = heart | a plate | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on plate=Destination | |||
| 8 | see | past | thought | the old man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | come | gerund | the old man not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 10 | say speech: assert | past | thought | to the boy | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to boy=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 11 | lie down | infinitive | your bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | |||||
| 12 | draw | infinitive | the clothes | over you | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=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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