Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 20
But the dwarf put the same spell upon him as he put on his elder brother, and he, too, was at last obliged to take up his abode in the heart of the mountains.
Who acts: dwarf · What happens: put, oblige, take up · To what, where: same spell, dwarf, abode, heart
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarf), 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 | _ | 4 put | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dwarf | det |
| 3 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spell | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spell | amod |
| 7 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | obl |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 put | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 put | nsubj |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | advcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 brother | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 brother | amod |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 obliged | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 obliged | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 he | punct |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 he | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 he | punct |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 obliged | aux:pass |
| 24 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 26 obliged | mark |
| 25 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 obliged | amod |
| 26 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 put | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 take | mark |
| 28 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 obliged | xcomp |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 take | compound:prt |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 abode | nmod:poss |
| 31 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 take | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 heart | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 heart | det |
| 34 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 take | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 mountains | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 mountains | det |
| 37 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 heart | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the dwarf | the same spell | upon king | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent spell=Theme upon he=Destination | |||
| 2 | put | past | dwarf | on king's elder brother | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on brother=Destination | ||||
| 3 | oblige | past · passive | dwarf | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 4 | take up | to-infinitive | king's abode | the heart of the mountains | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent abode=Value in heart=Location |
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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