Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 4
It was covered, however, and even the servant did not know what was in it, neither did anyone know, for the king never took off the cover to eat of it until he was quite alone.
Who acts: servant, anyone, king · What happens: cover, not know, be, do, know, not take off · To what, where: servant, table, cover · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, anyone, king), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 covered | aux:pass |
| 3 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 3 covered | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 know | cc |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 servant | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 servant | det |
| 10 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 know | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 know | advmod |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 covered | conj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 it | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 it | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 know | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 did | punct |
| 19 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 20 did | cc:preconj |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 covered | parataxis |
| 21 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 know | nsubj |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 did | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 took | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 took | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 took | nsubj |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 28 took | advmod |
| 28 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 did | conj |
| 29 | off | off | ADP | _ | 28 took | compound:prt |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 cover | det |
| 31 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 took | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 eat | mark |
| 33 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 took | advcl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 eat | obl |
| 36 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 40 alone | mark |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 alone | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 alone | cop |
| 39 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 40 alone | advmod |
| 40 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 33 eat | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | servant | however property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | the servant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | table | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | know | infinitive | anyone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | not take off | past | the king | the cover | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cover=Theme | ||||
| 7 | eat | to-infinitive | the king not said here | of servant | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source | ||||
| 8 | is | past | king | alone property | tree rules |
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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