Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 15
When they came to the nobleman’s castle, the table was spread, and Crabb was told to sit down and eat.
Who acts: words, castle, Crabb · What happens: come, spread, tell, sit down, eat · To what, where: castle, table, Crabb · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (words, castle, Crabb), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 castle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nobleman | det |
| 6 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 castle | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 nobleman | case |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 spread | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 table | det |
| 11 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 spread | aux:pass |
| 13 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 castle | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 told | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 told | cc |
| 16 | Crabb | Crabb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 told | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 told | aux:pass |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 sit | mark |
| 20 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 told | xcomp |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 sit | compound:prt |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 eat | cc |
| 23 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sit | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | words = word | the nobleman's castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | spread | past · passive | the nobleman's castle not said here | the table | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | Crabb | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | sit down not said to happen | to-infinitive | Crabb not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | eat | present | Crabb not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP 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.
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