Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 93
Then he dismounted and took her in his arms; and she kissed him, and said, ‘Now you have indeed set me free, and tomorrow we will celebrate our marriage.’
Who acts: thing, maiden, tomorrow, our · What happens: dismount, take, kiss, say, set, celebrate · To what, where: maiden, arms, thing, you, marriage · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (thing, maiden, tomorrow, our), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 dismounted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dismounted | nsubj |
| 3 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 took | cc |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dismounted | conj |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 arms | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 arms | nmod:poss |
| 9 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 kissed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 kissed | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kissed | nsubj |
| 13 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dismounted | parataxis |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kissed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 kissed | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 set | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 set | punct |
| 20 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 set | advmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 set | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 set | aux |
| 23 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 24 set | advmod |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 said | ccomp |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 set | obj |
| 26 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 set | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 celebrate | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 celebrate | cc |
| 29 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 celebrate | nsubj |
| 30 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 celebrate | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 celebrate | aux |
| 32 | celebrate | celebrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dismounted | parataxis |
| 33 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 34 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 celebrate | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 celebrate | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 dismounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismount | past | thing | then | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | past | thing not said here | maiden | thing's arms | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Value in arm=Location | |||
| 3 | kiss | past | maiden | thing | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | maiden not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | set | present · perfect · passive | you | now | free, indeed property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme i=Destination | |||
| 6 | celebrate | future | tomorrow | our marriage | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme | ||||
| 7 | marry | our | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=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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