Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 29
On the way the dwarf showed him the treasures which the witch had collected and hidden there, and the soldier took as much gold as he could carry.
Who acts: dwarf, soldier · What happens: show, collect, hide, take, carry · To what, where: treasures, soldier, way, much gold
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 (dwarf, soldier), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 showed | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dwarf | det |
| 5 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 showed | nsubj |
| 6 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 showed | iobj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 treasures | det |
| 9 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 showed | obj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 collected | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 witch | det |
| 12 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 collected | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 collected | aux |
| 14 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 treasures | acl:relcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hidden | cc |
| 16 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 collected | conj |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 hidden | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 took | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 took | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 soldier | det |
| 21 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | nsubj |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 showed | conj |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 gold | amod |
| 25 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 carry | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 carry | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 carry | aux |
| 29 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 took | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | the dwarf | the treasures | soldier | the way | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient treasure=Topic | ||
| 2 | collect | past · perfect · passive | the treasures | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hide | participle | there | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | take | past | the soldier | much gold | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ||||
| 5 | carry | could | soldier | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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