Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 24
They are bewitched, and are obliged to watch over a great treasure which is below in the tower, and they can have no rest until it is taken away, and I have likewise learnt, from their discourse, how that is to be done.’
Who acts: great treasure, dogs, I · What happens: bewitch, oblige, watch, be, have, take away · To what, where: dogs, great treasure, tower, rest, it, discourse
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 (great treasure, dogs, I), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bewitched | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bewitched | aux:pass |
| 3 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 obliged | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 obliged | cc |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 obliged | aux:pass |
| 7 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bewitched | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 watch | mark |
| 9 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 obliged | xcomp |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 treasure | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 treasure | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 treasure | amod |
| 13 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 watch | obl |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 tower | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 tower | cop |
| 16 | below | below | ADV | _ | 19 tower | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 tower | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tower | det |
| 19 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 treasure | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 have | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 have | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 have | aux |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 watch | conj |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 rest | det |
| 26 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 have | obj |
| 27 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 30 taken | mark |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 taken | aux:pass |
| 30 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 have | advcl |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 taken | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 learnt | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 learnt | cc |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 learnt | nsubj |
| 35 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 learnt | aux |
| 36 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 37 learnt | advmod |
| 37 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 bewitched | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 discourse | punct |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 discourse | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 discourse | nmod:poss |
| 41 | discourse | discourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 learnt | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 done | punct |
| 43 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 48 done | advmod |
| 44 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 48 done | nsubj |
| 45 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 done | aux:pass |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 done | mark |
| 47 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 48 done | aux:pass |
| 48 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 discourse | acl:relcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bewitched | punct |
| 50 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 bewitched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bewitch | present · passive | dogs = dog | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | oblige | present · passive | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result | ||||||
| 3 | watch | to-infinitive | a great treasure | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over treasure=Location | |||||
| 4 | is | present | a great treasure | the tower | below property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | have | can | dogs = dog | no rest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient | ||||
| 6 | take away | present · passive | it | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 7 | learn | present · perfect | I | dogs's discourse | likewise property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from discourse=Source | |||
| 8 | do | present · passive | I not said here | dogs's discourse | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 9 | discourse | dogs = dog | nom discourse «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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