Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 45
Then the countryman stopped his fiddle, and left the miser to take his place at the gallows.
Who acts: countryman · What happens: stop, leave, take · To what, where: fiddle, miser, place, gallows
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stopped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 countryman | det |
| 3 | countryman | countryman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stopped | nsubj |
| 4 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fiddle | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fiddle | fiddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stopped | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 left | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 left | cc |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stopped | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 miser | det |
| 11 | miser | miser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 take | mark |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 left | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 place | nmod:poss |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 gallows | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gallows | det |
| 18 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 take | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the countryman | countryman's fiddle | then | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fiddle=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | leave | past | the countryman not said here | the miser | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miser=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | the countryman not said here | countryman's place | the gallows | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at gallows=Asset |
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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