Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 12
Then he was to go with him and bring back the stolen money.
Who acts: lord · What happens: be, bring back, steal · To what, where: stolen money
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), 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 | 5 go | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 go | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bring | cc |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 bring | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 money | det |
| 12 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 money | amod |
| 13 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bring | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | lord | then | with doctor; go property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bring back | infinitive | lord not said here | the stolen money | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 3 | steal | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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