Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 14
The lord was willing, and let both of them have a seat in the carriage, and they all drove away together.
Who acts: lord, both, words · What happens: be, let, have, drive away · To what, where: seat, carriage
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, both, words), 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 lord | det |
| 2 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 willing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 willing | cop |
| 4 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 let | cc |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 willing | xcomp |
| 8 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 have | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 both | nmod |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 let | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 seat | det |
| 13 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 carriage | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 carriage | det |
| 16 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seat | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 drove | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 drove | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 drove | nsubj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 drove | advmod |
| 21 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 willing | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 drove | advmod |
| 23 | together | together | ADV | _ | 21 drove | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 willing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the lord | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | the lord not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | present | both | a seat | the carriage | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Patient | |||
| 4 | drive away | past | words = word | away, together property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/52/14/