Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 30
With this the doctor was satisfied, and returned to the hall, sat down to the table, and said: ‘My lord, now will I search in my book where the gold is hidden.’
Who acts: I · What happens: be, return, sit down, say, search, hide · To what, where: book, gold · 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 (I), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 doctor | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 doctor | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 doctor | det |
| 4 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 satisfied | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 satisfied | cop |
| 6 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 returned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 returned | cc |
| 9 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 satisfied | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 hall | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hall | det |
| 12 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 returned | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sat | punct |
| 14 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 returned | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 sat | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 table | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 table | det |
| 18 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sat | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sat | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 lord | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 lord | punct |
| 24 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 lord | nmod:poss |
| 25 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | ccomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 search | punct |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 search | advmod |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 search | aux |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 search | nsubj |
| 30 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 lord | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 book | case |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 book | nmod:poss |
| 33 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 search | obl |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 hidden | advmod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 gold | det |
| 36 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 hidden | aux:pass |
| 38 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 book | acl:relcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 satisfied | punct |
| 40 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | with this doctor; satisfied property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | return | past | to the hall result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hall=Result | |||||
| 3 | sit down | past | to the table; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | search | future | I | my book | now | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in book=Location | |||
| 6 | hide | present · passive | the gold | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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