Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 34
The boat, however, did not sink, for the good fairy took care of her friend, and soon raised the boat up again, and it went safely on.
Who acts: boat, friend · What happens: not sink, take, raise up, go, care · To what, where: care, boat
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boat, friend), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boat | det |
| 2 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sink | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 boat | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 sink | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sink | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 sink | advmod |
| 8 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 fairy | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fairy | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fairy | amod |
| 13 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sink | parataxis |
| 15 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 friend | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 friend | nmod:poss |
| 18 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 care | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 raised | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 raised | cc |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 raised | advmod |
| 22 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 boat | det |
| 24 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 raised | obj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 raised | compound:prt |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 raised | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 went | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 went | cc |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 went | nsubj |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 31 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 30 went | advmod |
| 32 | on | on | ADV | _ | 30 went | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sink | past · do-support | the boat | however property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | past | care of sorrow's friend | for the good fairy | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent care=Theme for fairy=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | raise up | past | the boat | again | soon property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | |||
| 4 | go | past | boat | safely property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | care | sorrow's friend | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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