Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 33
Around it he saw several knights sitting in a trance; then he pulled off their rings and put them on his own fingers.
Who acts: door, several knights · What happens: see, sit, pull off, put · To what, where: several knights, castle, trance, rings, own fingers
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 (door, several knights), 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 | Around | around | ADP | _ | 2 it | case |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 knights | amod |
| 6 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 knights | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 trance | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 trance | det |
| 10 | trance | trance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sitting | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 pulled | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 pulled | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pulled | nsubj |
| 14 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | parataxis |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 pulled | compound:prt |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 rings | nmod:poss |
| 17 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pulled | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 put | cc |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 pulled | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 put | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 fingers | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fingers | amod |
| 24 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 put | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | door | several knights | castle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knight=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | sit | gerund | several knights not said here | a trance | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in trance=Location | ||||
| 3 | pull off | past | door | knights's rings | then | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | put | infinitive | door not said here | rings = ring | door's own fingers | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on finger=Destination |
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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