Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 6
Then he yoked his oxen, and drew the turnip to the court, and gave it to the king.
Who acts: gardener · What happens: yoke, draw, give · To what, where: oxen, turnip, court, seed, king
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 (gardener), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 yoked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 yoked | nsubj |
| 3 | yoked | yoke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 oxen | nmod:poss |
| 5 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 yoked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 drew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drew | cc |
| 8 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 yoked | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 turnip | det |
| 10 | turnip | turnip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drew | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 court | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 court | det |
| 13 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drew | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gave | cc |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 yoked | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 king | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 yoked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yoke | past | gardener | gardener's oxen | then | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent ox=Destination | |||
| 2 | draw | past | gardener not said here | the turnip | the court | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent turnip=Theme to court=Destination | |||
| 3 | give | past | gardener not said here | seed | the king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=Recipient |
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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