Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 151
Then he took the skulls and put them in the lathe and turned them till they were round.
Who acts: money, skulls · What happens: take, put, turn, be · To what, where: skulls, lathe
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (money, skulls), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skulls | det |
| 5 | skulls | skull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 put | cc |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 put | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 lathe | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lathe | det |
| 11 | lathe | lathe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 turned | cc |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 turned | obj |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 round | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 round | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 round | cop |
| 18 | round | round | ADV | _ | 13 turned | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | money | the skulls | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skull=Theme | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | money not said here | skulls = skull | the lathe | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in lathe=Destination | |||
| 3 | turn | past | money not said here | skulls = skull | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | skulls = skull | round property | tree rules |
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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