Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 67
Then he took the prince’s coat, and gave him the shabby one, and went away through the wood.
Who acts: prince · What happens: take, give, go away · To what, where: coat, shabby one, prince, wood
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 (prince), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coat | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 prince | case |
| 7 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gave | cc |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 13 | shabby | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | amod |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wood | det |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | prince | the prince's coat | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past | prince not said here | the shabby one | prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient one=Theme | |||
| 3 | go away | past | prince not said here | the wood | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through wood=Initial_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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