Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 71
And they stole away out of the palace by night unawares, and seated themselves on the griffin, who flew back with them over the Red Sea.
Who acts: woes, griffin · What happens: steal away, seat, fly back · To what, where: palace, woes, Red Sea
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woes, griffin), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 stole | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stole | nsubj |
| 3 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 stole | advmod |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stole | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 unawares | case |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 unawares | compound |
| 11 | unawares | unaware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 palace | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seated | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seated | cc |
| 14 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stole | conj |
| 15 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 seated | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 griffin | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 griffin | det |
| 18 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seated | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 flew | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 flew | nsubj |
| 21 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 griffin | acl:relcl |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 flew | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 flew | obl |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 Sea | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Sea | det |
| 27 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Sea | compound |
| 28 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 flew | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal away | past | woes = woe | the palace by night unawares | away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out palace=Location | |||
| 2 | seat | past | woes = woe not said here | woes = woe | on the griffin | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Value | |||
| 3 | fly back | past | the griffin | the Red Sea | with woes = woe | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over sea=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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