Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 21
As he himself would have it so, they gave him some food for the wild animals, and led him down to the tower.
Who acts: youth, dogs · What happens: have, give, lead down · To what, where: fear, food, youth, tower
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Languages. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, dogs), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 have | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 have | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 gave | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 have | obj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 have | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 food | det |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 animals | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 animals | det |
| 16 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 animals | amod |
| 17 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 food | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 led | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 led | cc |
| 20 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gave | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 led | obj |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 led | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 tower | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tower | det |
| 25 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 led | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | would | youth | fear | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | past | dogs = dog | some food | youth | for the wild animals | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=Theme for animal=Asset | ||
| 3 | lead down | past | dogs = dog not said here | youth | the tower | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to tower=Destination |
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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