Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 34
In another room he saw on a table a sword and a loaf of bread, which he also took.
Who acts: door · What happens: see, take · To what, where: sword, room, bread
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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 room | case |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 room | det |
| 3 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 table | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 table | det |
| 8 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sword | det |
| 10 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 loaf | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 loaf | det |
| 13 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sword | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bread | case |
| 15 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 loaf | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 took | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 took | nsubj |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 took | advmod |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 bread | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | door | a sword and a loaf of bread | another room | on a table | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | take | past | door | bread | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
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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