Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 9
The youth was taken thither, and stayed a year with this master likewise.
What happens: take, stay · To what, where: youth
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: 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 | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 4 taken | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stayed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stayed | cc |
| 8 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 year | det |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 master | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 master | det |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stayed | obl |
| 14 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 8 stayed | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | the youth | thither property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stay | past | year | with this master; likewise property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with master=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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