Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 15

The next morning he came to the eldest and took him to a marble table, where there were three tablets, containing an account of the means by which the castle might be disenchanted.

Who acts: man, the · What happens: come, take, be, contain, mean, disenchant · To what, where: eldest, man, three tablets, account, castle · 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, the), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 eldest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eldest	det
8	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 came	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 took	cc
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 table	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 table	det
14	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 table	compound
15	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tablets	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 were	punct
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 were	advmod
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 were	expl
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tablets	cop
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 tablets	nummod
21	tablets	tablet	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 took	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 containing	punct
23	containing	contain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 took	advcl
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 account	det
25	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 containing	obj
26	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 means	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 means	nsubj
28	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 account	acl:relcl
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 which	case
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 disenchanted	obl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 castle	det
32	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 disenchanted	nsubj:pass
33	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 disenchanted	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 disenchanted	aux:pass
35	disenchanted	disenchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 means	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	man			the eldest	morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to eld=Initial_Location
2	take	past	man not said here		man				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
3	is a	past		three tablets				to a marble table	tree rules
4	contain	gerund	man not said here	a account					vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot account=Theme
5	mean	present	the	a account not said here					tree rules
6	disenchant	might · passive		the castle					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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