Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 60
And the king sent two waiting-maids and two attendants into the tower, to fetch the queen and bring her to the royal table.
Who acts: king · What happens: send, fetch, bring · To what, where: two waiting maids, tower, queen, dog
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 (king), 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 | _ | 4 sent | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 maids | nummod |
| 6 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 maids | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 waiting | punct |
| 8 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sent | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 attendants | cc |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 attendants | nummod |
| 11 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 maids | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 tower | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tower | det |
| 14 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fetch | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 fetch | mark |
| 17 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 queen | det |
| 19 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fetch | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bring | cc |
| 21 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 fetch | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bring | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 table | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 table | det |
| 25 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 table | amod |
| 26 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bring | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the king | two waiting maids and two attendants | the tower | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Theme | |||
| 2 | fetch | to-infinitive | the queen | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | dog | to the royal table | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
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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