Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 14

He said nothing, but took hold of them and led them to a beautiful table covered with all sorts of good things: and when they had eaten and drunk, he showed each of them to a bed-chamber.

Who acts: man, brother · What happens: say, take, lead, cover, eat, show · To what, where: nothing, hold, brother, beautiful table, each, bed chamber · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Queen Bee. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, brother), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 said	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 took	cc
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
7	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hold	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 led	cc
11	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 led	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 table	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 table	det
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 table	amod
16	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 led	obl
17	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 table	acl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 sorts	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 sorts	det
20	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 covered	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 things	case
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 things	amod
23	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sorts	nmod
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 eaten	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 eaten	cc
26	when	when	SCONJ	_	29 eaten	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 eaten	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 eaten	aux
29	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 drunk	cc
31	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 eaten	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 showed	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 showed	nsubj
34	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
35	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	34 showed	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 each	nmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	42 chamber	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 chamber	det
40	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 chamber	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 bed	punct
42	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 showed	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	man	nothing				tree rules
2	take	past		hold of brother				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
3	lead	past		brother		a beautiful table		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to table=Destination
4	cover	participle		a beautiful table not said here			with all sorts of good things	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sort=Theme
5	eat	past · perfect	brother					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	show	past	man	each	a bed chamber			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Topic to chamber=Recipient
7	hold			brother				nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient
8	sort			good things				nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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