Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 82
The robbers, therefore, made him get on the horse, and handed him the stick and the cloak, and when he had put this round him he was no longer visible.
Who acts: robbers, thing · What happens: make, get, hand, put, be · To what, where: thing, stick, this
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 (robbers, thing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 robbers | det |
| 2 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 robbers | punct |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 robbers | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 robbers | punct |
| 6 | made | make | 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 made | obj |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 made | xcomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 horse | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horse | det |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 handed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 handed | cc |
| 14 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | parataxis |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 handed | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stick | det |
| 17 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 handed | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cloak | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cloak | det |
| 20 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stick | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 put | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 put | cc |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 put | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 put | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 put | aux |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 handed | conj |
| 27 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 put | obj |
| 28 | round | round | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 put | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 visible | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 visible | cop |
| 32 | no | no | ADV | _ | 33 longer | advmod |
| 33 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 34 visible | advmod |
| 34 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 put | parataxis |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the robbers | thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | thing not said here | on the horse | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on horse=Source | ||||
| 3 | hand | past | the stick and the cloak | thing | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination stick=Theme | ||||
| 4 | put | past · perfect | thing | this | round God | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent this=Goal | |||
| 5 | is | past | thing | long, visible property | 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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