Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 33
But she put down the dish of food and the glass of wine in front of him, and when he smelt the wine, he was unable to resist the temptation, and took a deep draught.
Who acts: woman, man · What happens: put down, smelt, be, resist, take · To what, where: dish, wine, temptation, deep draught
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 put | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 put | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dish | det |
| 6 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 food | case |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dish | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 glass | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 glass | det |
| 11 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 food | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wine | case |
| 13 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 glass | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 front | case |
| 15 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wine | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 front | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 unable | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 unable | cc |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 smelt | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 smelt | nsubj |
| 22 | smelt | smelt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 unable | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wine | det |
| 24 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 smelt | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 smelt | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 unable | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 unable | cop |
| 28 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 put | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 resist | mark |
| 30 | resist | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 unable | xcomp |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 temptation | det |
| 32 | temptation | temptation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 resist | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 took | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 took | cc |
| 35 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 draught | det |
| 37 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 draught | amod |
| 38 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 took | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put down | past | woman | the dish of food and the glass of wine in front of man | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent dish=Goal | ||||
| 2 | smelt | past | man | the wine | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | man | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | resist | to-infinitive | man not said here | the temptation | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take | past | woman not said here | a deep draught | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=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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