Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 63
One day he took her to walk with him out of the town, and showed her the spot where the boat was set adrift upon the wide waters.
Who acts: luck · What happens: take, walk, show, set · To what, where: queen, town, spot, boat, wide waters
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 (luck), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2591:2145): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 walk | mark |
| 7 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 took | advcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 walk | obl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 town | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 out | fixed |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 town | det |
| 13 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walk | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 showed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 showed | cc |
| 16 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 showed | iobj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 spot | det |
| 19 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 showed | obj |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 set | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 boat | det |
| 22 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 set | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 set | aux:pass |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 spot | acl:relcl |
| 25 | adrift | adrift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 set | xcomp |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 29 waters | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 waters | det |
| 28 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 waters | amod |
| 29 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 set | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | luck | queen | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 2 | walk | to-infinitive | luck not said here | the town | with luck | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out town=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | show | past | luck not said here | the spot | queen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient spot=Topic | |||
| 4 | set | past · passive | the boat | the wide waters | adrift property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon water=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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