Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 63
However, he kept fast hold, and led her in; and the cover of the basket came off, so that the meats in it fell about.
Who acts: son, cover, meats · What happens: keep, lead in, come off, fall about · To what, where: fast hold, princess
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 (son, cover, 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 kept | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hold | amod |
| 6 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 led | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 led | cc |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 led | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 led | compound:prt |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 came | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cover | det |
| 15 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 basket | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 basket | det |
| 18 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cover | nmod |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | conj |
| 20 | off | off | ADV | _ | 19 came | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fell | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 fell | advmod |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 fell | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 meats | det |
| 25 | meats | meat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 fell | nsubj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 meats | nmod |
| 28 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | conj |
| 29 | about | about | ADV | _ | 28 fell | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | son | fast hold | however property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | |||
| 2 | lead in | past | son not said here | princess | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come off | past | the cover of the basket | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fall about | past | the meats in cover | about property | vn occur-48.3 «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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