Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 35
So the student let him down, opened the sack, and set him free.
Who acts: student · What happens: let down, open, set · To what, where: other, sack
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (student), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 let | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 student | det |
| 3 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 let | nsubj |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 let | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 opened | punct |
| 8 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sack | det |
| 10 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 opened | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 set | obj |
| 15 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 set | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let down | infinitive | the student | other | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | open | past | the sack | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sack=Theme | |||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | the student not said here | other | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result |
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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