Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 8
When he had doctored people awhile, but not long, a rich and great lord had some money stolen.
Who acts: peasant, rich lord · What happens: doctor, have, steal · To what, where: people, 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 (peasant, rich 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 doctored | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 doctored | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 doctored | aux |
| 4 | doctored | doctor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 doctored | obj |
| 6 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 4 doctored | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 long | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 long | cc |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 long | advmod |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 doctored | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 lord | det |
| 13 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lord | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 great | cc |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rich | conj |
| 16 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 long | conj |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 money | det |
| 19 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 20 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 money | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 doctored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doctor | past · perfect | peasant | people | awhile property | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | have | past | a rich lord | some money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||||
| 3 | steal | participle | some money not said here | 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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