Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 22
So the lady stole it away, and he never found any more gold under his pillow, for it lay now under the young lady’s, and the old woman took it away every morning; but he was so much in love that he never missed his prize.
Who acts: lady, huntsman, reason, old woman · What happens: steal away, not find, lie, take away, be, not miss · To what, where: reason, gold, pillow, love, prize
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, huntsman, reason, old woman), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 stole | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lady | det |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stole | nsubj |
| 4 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stole | obj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 stole | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 found | advmod |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stole | conj |
| 12 | any | any | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 gold | advmod |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 pillow | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 17 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lay | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 lay | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lay | nsubj |
| 21 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | parataxis |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 lay | advmod |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 lady | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 lady | det |
| 25 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lady | amod |
| 26 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lay | obl |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 lady | case |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 took | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 took | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 woman | det |
| 31 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 woman | amod |
| 32 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 took | nsubj |
| 33 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lay | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 took | obj |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 33 took | advmod |
| 36 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 morning | det |
| 37 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 took | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 much | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 much | cc |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 much | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 much | cop |
| 42 | so | so | ADV | _ | 43 much | advmod |
| 43 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stole | conj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 love | case |
| 45 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 much | nmod |
| 46 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 49 missed | mark |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 missed | nsubj |
| 48 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 49 missed | advmod |
| 49 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 much | advcl |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 prize | nmod:poss |
| 51 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 missed | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal away | past | the lady | reason | away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 2 | not find | past | huntsman | gold | huntsman's pillow | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Topic | |||
| 3 | lie | past | reason | now | under the young lady | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under lady=Location | |||
| 4 | take away | past | the old woman | reason | morning | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 5 | is | past | huntsman | love | much property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | not miss | past | huntsman | huntsman's prize | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prize=Stimulus |
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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