Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 10
So the lord had the horses harnessed to his carriage, drove out to the village, and asked Crabb if he were Doctor Knowall.
Who acts: lord, horses · What happens: have, harness, drive out, ask, be · To what, where: village, Crabb, Knowall
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Doctor Knowall. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord, horses), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lord | det |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horses | det |
| 6 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 harnessed | nsubj |
| 7 | harnessed | harness | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 carriage | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 carriage | nmod:poss |
| 10 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 harnessed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drove | punct |
| 12 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 drove | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 village | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 village | det |
| 16 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drove | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 asked | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 asked | cc |
| 19 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 20 | Crabb | Crabb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 asked | iobj |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 Knowall | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 Knowall | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 Knowall | cop |
| 24 | Doctor | Doctor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Knowall | nmod:desc |
| 25 | Knowall | Knowall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 asked | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the lord | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | harness | past | the horses | to lord's carriage | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to carriage=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | drive out | past | the lord not said here | the village | out property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to village=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the lord not said here | Crabb | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent crabb=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | lord | Knowall | Doctor nmod:desc | 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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