Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 36
Not long after this there was a great bustle in the country; for the king’s daughter had been carried off by a mighty dragon, and the king mourned over his loss day and night, and made it known that whoever brought her back to him should have her for a wife.
Who acts: great bustle, mighty dragon, king, bustle, whoever · What happens: be, carry off, mourn, make, know, bring · To what, where: daughter, bustle, dragon
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great bustle, mighty dragon, king, bustle), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 51 have | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 long | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 long | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bustle | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bustle | amod |
| 9 | bustle | bustle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 country | det |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bustle | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 carried | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 carried | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 king | case |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 carried | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 carried | aux:pass |
| 21 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 was | parataxis |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 carried | compound:prt |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 dragon | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 dragon | det |
| 25 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 dragon | amod |
| 26 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carried | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 mourned | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 mourned | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 king | det |
| 30 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 mourned | nsubj |
| 31 | mourned | mourn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 carried | parataxis |
| 32 | over | over | ADP | _ | 35 day | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 day | nmod:poss |
| 34 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 day | compound |
| 35 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 mourned | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 night | cc |
| 37 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 day | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 made | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 made | cc |
| 40 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 mourned | conj |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 made | obj |
| 42 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 made | xcomp |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 brought | mark |
| 44 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 brought | nsubj |
| 45 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 known | advcl |
| 46 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 brought | obj |
| 47 | back | back | ADV | _ | 45 brought | advmod |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 him | case |
| 49 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 back | obl |
| 50 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 have | aux |
| 51 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 52 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 have | obj |
| 53 | for | for | ADP | _ | 55 wife | case |
| 54 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 wife | det |
| 55 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 have | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 51 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a great bustle in the country | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry off | past · perfect · passive | a mighty dragon | the king's daughter | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mourn | past | the king | day | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | make | past | the king not said here | bustle | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know | participle | bustle not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | bring | past | whoever | dragon | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | ||||
| 7 | have | should | dragon | for a wife; long property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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