Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 52
Then they took away her fine clothes, and gave her an old grey frock to put on, and laughed at her, and turned her into the kitchen.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: take away, give, put on, laugh, turn · To what, where: fine clothes, old grey frock, wife, kitchen
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 (eyes), 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 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 clothes | amod |
| 7 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gave | cc |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 frock | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 frock | amod |
| 14 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 frock | amod |
| 15 | frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 put | mark |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 frock | acl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 put | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 laughed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 laughed | cc |
| 21 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 laughed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 turned | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 turned | cc |
| 26 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 turned | obj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 kitchen | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 kitchen | det |
| 30 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 turned | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | past | eyes = eye | wife's fine clothes | then | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | ||
| 2 | give | past | eyes = eye not said here | a old grey frock | wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient frock=Theme | |||
| 3 | put on | to-infinitive | eyes = eye not said here | a old grey frock not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | laugh | past | eyes = eye not said here | at wife | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | turn | past | eyes = eye not said here | wife | the kitchen | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme into kitchen=Trajectory |
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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