Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 61
And the servants gave her some of the rich meats, which she put into her basket to take home.
Who acts: servants, rich meats · What happens: give, put, take · To what, where: rich meats, princess, basket
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, rich meats), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 gave | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 servants | det |
| 3 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 meats | det |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 meats | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 meats | det |
| 9 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 meats | amod |
| 10 | meats | meat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gave | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 put | nsubj:outer |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 put | nsubj |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 meats | parataxis |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 basket | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 basket | nmod:poss |
| 17 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 take | mark |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 put | advcl |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 take | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the servants | some rich meats | princess | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient meat=Theme | |||
| 2 | put | past | some rich meats | princess's basket | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | some rich meats not said here | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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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