Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 121
Then he took her for his bride, and set her beside him on his horse, and rode away with her homewards.
Who acts: son · What happens: take, set, ride away · To what, where: toe
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 bride | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bride | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 set | obj |
| 12 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 set | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 horse | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 horse | nmod:poss |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rode | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rode | cc |
| 19 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 rode | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 homewards | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 homewards | nmod:poss |
| 23 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rode | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | son | toe | then | for son's bride | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent she=Theme for bride=Beneficiary | ||
| 2 | set | past | son not said here | toe | beside son; on son's horse | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent her=Theme on horse=Destination | |||
| 3 | ride away | past | son not said here | with toe's homewards; away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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