Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 42
At the second note the hangman let his prisoner go, and danced also, and by the time he had played the first bar of the tune, all were dancing together--judge, court, and miser, and all the people who had followed to look on.
Who acts: hangman, prisoner, all · What happens: let, go, dance, play, follow, look on · To what, where: second note, time, people
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 (hangman, prisoner, all), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 note | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 note | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 note | amod |
| 4 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 let | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hangman | det |
| 6 | hangman | hangman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 let | nsubj |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 prisoner | nmod:poss |
| 9 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | nsubj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 danced | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 danced | cc |
| 13 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 let | conj |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 danced | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 time | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 time | cc |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 let | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 played | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 played | aux |
| 22 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 time | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bar | det |
| 24 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 bar | amod |
| 25 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 time | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 tune | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tune | det |
| 28 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bar | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 dancing | punct |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 dancing | nsubj |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 dancing | aux |
| 32 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 bar | conj |
| 33 | together | together | ADV | _ | 32 dancing | advmod |
| 34 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 35 judge | punct |
| 35 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dancing | parataxis |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 court | punct |
| 37 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 judge | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 miser | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 miser | cc |
| 40 | miser | miser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 judge | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 followed | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 followed | cc |
| 43 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 people | det:predet |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 people | det |
| 45 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 followed | aux |
| 48 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 dancing | parataxis |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 look | mark |
| 50 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 followed | advcl |
| 51 | on | on | ADP | _ | 50 look | compound:prt |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | the hangman | the second note | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | infinitive | hangman's prisoner | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dance | past | the hangman not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | play | past · perfect | prisoner | the time not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme | ||||
| 5 | dance | past · progressive | all | together property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | follow | past · perfect · passive | all people | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | look on | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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