Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 9
When the king saw the blood on her apron, he believed this, fell into such a passion that he ordered a high tower to be built, in which neither sun nor moon could be seen and had his wife put into it, and walled up.
Who acts: king, wife · What happens: see, believe, fall, order, build, have · To what, where: blood, apron, this, passion, high tower, sun
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, wife), 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 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 believed | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 blood | det |
| 6 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 apron | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 apron | nmod:poss |
| 9 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 believed | nsubj |
| 12 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 believed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 believed | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 passion | case |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 passion | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 passion | det |
| 19 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | obl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 ordered | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ordered | nsubj |
| 22 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fell | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 tower | det |
| 24 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tower | amod |
| 25 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ordered | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 built | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 built | aux:pass |
| 28 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 tower | acl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 seen | punct |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 which | case |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 seen | obl |
| 32 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 sun | det |
| 33 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 seen | nsubj |
| 34 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 35 moon | cc |
| 35 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sun | conj |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 seen | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 seen | aux:pass |
| 38 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 built | advcl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 had | cc |
| 40 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 seen | conj |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 wife | nmod:poss |
| 42 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 put | nsubj |
| 43 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 had | ccomp |
| 44 | into | into | ADP | _ | 45 it | case |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 put | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 walled | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 walled | cc |
| 48 | walled | wall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 believed | conj |
| 49 | up | up | ADP | _ | 48 walled | compound:prt |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the king | the blood | angel's apron | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | believe | past | king | this | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | king not said here | into such passion result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into passion=Result | ||||
| 4 | order | past | king | a high tower | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Theme | ||||
| 5 | build | to-infinitive · passive | king not said here | a high tower not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V» | ||||
| 6 | see | could · passive | neither sun nor moon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | put | past | king's wife | blood | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | wall up | participle | king not said here | tree rules |
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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