Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 15
Next day the old woman took him to the well, and let him down in a basket.
Who acts: old woman · What happens: take, let down · To what, where: soldier, well, basket
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 well | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 well | det |
| 10 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 let | cc |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | parataxis |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 let | obj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 let | compound:prt |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 basket | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 basket | det |
| 18 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 let | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the old woman | soldier | the well | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to well=Destination | ||
| 2 | let down | infinitive | soldier | a basket | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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