Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 8
Then he carried the child away to a secret place, where a nurse was obliged to suckle it, and he ran to the king and accused the queen of having allowed her child to be taken from her by the wild beasts.
Who acts: cook, wild beasts · What happens: carry away, oblige, suckle, run, accuse, allow · To what, where: child, secret place, nurse, queen
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, wild beasts), 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 carried | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 carried | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 9 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 place | amod |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 obliged | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 obliged | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 nurse | det |
| 14 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 obliged | aux:pass |
| 16 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 place | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 suckle | mark |
| 18 | suckle | suckle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 obliged | xcomp |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 suckle | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ran | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ran | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ran | nsubj |
| 23 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 king | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ran | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 accused | cc |
| 28 | accused | accuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ran | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 queen | det |
| 30 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 accused | obj |
| 31 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 33 allowed | mark |
| 32 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 allowed | aux |
| 33 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 queen | acl:relcl |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 child | nmod:poss |
| 35 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 allowed | obj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 taken | mark |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 taken | aux:pass |
| 38 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 allowed | advcl |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 her | case |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 taken | obl |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 beasts | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 beasts | det |
| 43 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 beasts | amod |
| 44 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 taken | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry away | past | cook | the child | a secret place | then | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to place=Destination | |
| 2 | oblige | past · passive | a nurse | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 3 | suckle | to-infinitive | nurse | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 4 | run | past | cook | to the king result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to king=Result | ||||
| 5 | accuse | past | cook not said here | the queen | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent queen=Theme | ||||
| 6 | allow | gerund · perfect | the queen not said here | angel's child | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | take | to-infinitive · passive | the wild beasts | from angel | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from she=Initial_Location |
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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