Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 28
So he took the purse, put up his fiddle, and travelled on very pleased with his bargain.
Who acts: countryman · What happens: take, put up, travel, bargain · To what, where: purse, fiddle, pleased
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 (countryman), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 purse | det |
| 5 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 put | compound:prt |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fiddle | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fiddle | fiddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 travelled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 travelled | cc |
| 13 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 pleased | case |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 pleased | advmod |
| 16 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 travelled | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 bargain | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 bargain | nmod:poss |
| 19 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 travelled | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | countryman | the purse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put up | infinitive | countryman not said here | countryman's fiddle | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fiddle=Goal | ||||
| 3 | travel | past | countryman not said here | pleased | with countryman's bargain | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pleased=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | bargain | countryman | nom bargain «communication intransitive»: poss=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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