Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 21
The second tablet said: ‘The key of the princess’s bed-chamber must be fished up out of the lake.’
Who acts: second tablet · What happens: say, fish up · To what, where: key, lake · 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 (second tablet), 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 tablet | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 tablet | amod |
| 3 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 fished | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 fished | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 key | det |
| 8 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fished | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 chamber | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 princess | case |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chamber | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 bed | punct |
| 15 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 key | nmod |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 fished | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fished | aux:pass |
| 18 | fished | fish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | ccomp |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 fished | compound:prt |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 lake | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 lake | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lake | det |
| 23 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fished | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the second tablet | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fish up | must · passive | the key of the princess's bed chamber | the lake | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme out lake=Location |
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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