Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 27
And when he had spoken these words, the old man was changed into a poodle dog, and had a gold collar round his neck, and the cooks were ordered to bring up some live coals, and these he ate, until the flames broke forth from his throat.
Who acts: poodle, cooks, these, flames · What happens: speak, change, have, order, bring up, eat · To what, where: words, old man, gold collar, cooks, live coals · 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 (poodle, cooks, these, flames), 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 spoken | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 spoken | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spoken | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoken | aux |
| 5 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 words | det |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spoken | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 changed | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 changed | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 changed | aux:pass |
| 13 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 spoken | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 dog | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 dog | det |
| 16 | poodle | poodle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dog | compound |
| 17 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 changed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 changed | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 collar | det |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 collar | compound |
| 23 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 24 | round | round | ADP | _ | 26 neck | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 neck | nmod:poss |
| 26 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 collar | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 ordered | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 ordered | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 cooks | det |
| 30 | cooks | cook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 ordered | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 ordered | aux:pass |
| 32 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 had | parataxis |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 bring | mark |
| 34 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 ordered | xcomp |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 bring | compound:prt |
| 36 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 coals | det |
| 37 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 coals | amod |
| 38 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 bring | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 ate | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 ate | cc |
| 41 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 43 ate | nsubj |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 ate | nsubj |
| 43 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoken | parataxis |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 broke | punct |
| 45 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 48 broke | mark |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 flames | det |
| 47 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 broke | nsubj |
| 48 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 ate | conj |
| 49 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 48 broke | advmod |
| 50 | from | from | ADP | _ | 52 throat | case |
| 51 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 throat | nmod:poss |
| 52 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 broke | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · perfect | poodle | this words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | change | past · passive | the old man | into a poodle dog result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into dog=Result | ||||
| 3 | have | past | a gold collar | round poodle's neck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collar=Patient | ||||
| 4 | order | past · passive | the cooks | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | bring up not said to happen | to-infinitive | the cooks not said here | some live coals | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent coal=Patient | ||||
| 6 | eat | past | these | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | break | past | the flames | from poodle's throat; forth property | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from throat=Co-Patient |
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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