Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 56
So they went indoors together and sat down, and the man brought out the bread, meat, and wine, which although he had eaten and drunk of them, were still unconsumed.
Who acts: food, man, wine · What happens: go, sit down, bring out, eat, drink, unconsum · To what, where: bread, wine
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 (food, man, wine), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | indoors | indoors | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sat | cc |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 sat | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brought | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | nsubj |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 brought | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bread | det |
| 16 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 meat | punct |
| 18 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bread | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 unconsumed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 unconsumed | cc |
| 21 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 unconsumed | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 eaten | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 eaten | nsubj |
| 24 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 27 eaten | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 eaten | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 eaten | aux |
| 27 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 wine | appos |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 drunk | cc |
| 29 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 eaten | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 drunk | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wine | punct |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 unconsumed | aux:pass |
| 34 | still | still | ADV | _ | 35 unconsumed | advmod |
| 35 | unconsumed | unconsum | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | food | indoors, together property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | food not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bring out | past | the man | the bread and meat | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bread=Patient | ||||
| 4 | eat | past · perfect | wine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | drink | participle | wine not said here | of food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of they=Source | ||||
| 6 | unconsum | past · passive | food not said here | wine | still | tree rules |
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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