Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 43
Then they were all placed on sixty country carts, and driven home to the king, and for once he was able to deck his table with game, after having had none at all for years.
Who acts: huntsman · What happens: place, drive, be, deck, have · To what, where: deer, sixty country carts, table, none, all
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 (huntsman), 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 | 5 placed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 placed | aux:pass |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 placed | advmod |
| 5 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 carts | case |
| 7 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 carts | nummod |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carts | compound |
| 9 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 placed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 driven | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 driven | cc |
| 12 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 placed | conj |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 driven | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 king | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 driven | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 able | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 able | cc |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 once | case |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 23 able | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 able | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 able | cop |
| 23 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 driven | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 deck | mark |
| 25 | deck | deck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 able | xcomp |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 table | nmod:poss |
| 27 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 deck | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 game | case |
| 29 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 deck | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 having | punct |
| 31 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 32 having | mark |
| 32 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 deck | advcl |
| 33 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 having | ccomp |
| 34 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 33 had | obj |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 all | case |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 had | obl |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 years | case |
| 38 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 had | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | deer | sixty country carts | then | all property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on cart=Destination | ||
| 2 | drive | participle | to the king; home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to king=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | is | past | huntsman | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | deck | to-infinitive | huntsman not said here | huntsman's table | with game | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent table=Destination with game=Theme | |||
| 5 | have | gerund | huntsman not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | have | past | huntsman not said here | none | all | year | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=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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