Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 79
But when anything to eat was put upon her plate, he took it away and ate it himself; and when a glass of wine was handed to her, he took it and drank it; and thus, though they kept on giving her meat and drink, her plate and cup were always empty.
Who acts: Heinel, people · What happens: eat, put, take away, hand, take, drink · To what, where: anything, plate, glass, queen, meat
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 (Heinel, people), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 put | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 put | mark |
| 3 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 put | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 eat | mark |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 anything | acl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | aux:pass |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 plate | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 plate | nmod:poss |
| 10 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 took | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ate | cc |
| 17 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ate | obj |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 ate | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 handed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 handed | cc |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 handed | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 glass | det |
| 24 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 handed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 wine | case |
| 26 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 glass | nmod |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 handed | aux:pass |
| 28 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 took | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 handed | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 took | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 took | nsubj |
| 33 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 took | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 drank | cc |
| 36 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 took | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 drank | obj |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 thus | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 thus | cc |
| 40 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 put | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 kept | punct |
| 42 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 44 kept | mark |
| 43 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 kept | nsubj |
| 44 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | parataxis |
| 45 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 46 giving | mark |
| 46 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 58 empty | advcl |
| 47 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 meat | nmod:poss |
| 48 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 giving | obj |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 drink | cc |
| 50 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 meat | conj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 plate | punct |
| 52 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 plate | nmod:poss |
| 53 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 giving | obl |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 cup | cc |
| 55 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 plate | conj |
| 56 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 58 empty | cop |
| 57 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 58 empty | advmod |
| 58 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 kept | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | to-infinitive | anything not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | put | past · passive | anything | queen's plate | thus property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon plate=Destination | |||
| 3 | take away | past | Heinel | plate | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | eat | past | Heinel not said here | plate | Heinel obl:unmarked | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 5 | hand | past · passive | a glass of wine | queen | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to she=Destination | ||||
| 6 | take | past | Heinel | glass | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | drink | past | Heinel not said here | glass | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 8 | keep | past | people | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | give | gerund | queen's meat and drink | queen's plate and cup obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme | ||||
| 10 | is | past | always, empty property | tree rules |
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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