Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 49
When the first cock crowed, the manikin carried her back to the royal palace, and laid her in her bed.
Who acts: first cock, manikin · What happens: crow, carry back, lay · To what, where: door, royal palace, bed
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 (first cock, manikin), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 crowed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cock | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 cock | amod |
| 4 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crowed | nsubj |
| 5 | crowed | crow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 carried | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 crowed | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 manikin | det |
| 8 | manikin | manikin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | nsubj |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 carried | obj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 carried | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 14 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 palace | amod |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 laid | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 laid | cc |
| 18 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 carried | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 laid | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 bed | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 bed | nmod:poss |
| 22 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 laid | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crow | past | the first cock | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | carry back | past | the manikin | door | the royal palace | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to palace=Destination | |||
| 3 | lay | past | the manikin not said here | door | door's bed | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in bed=Destination |
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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