Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 14
They bound him with cords, and led him away to the castle.
Who acts: men · What happens: bound, lead · To what, where: hair
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bound | nsubj |
| 2 | bound | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bound | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 cords | case |
| 5 | cords | cord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bound | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 led | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 led | cc |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bound | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 led | obj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 led | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 castle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 castle | det |
| 13 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 away | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bound | present | men = man | hair | with cords | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme | |||
| 2 | lead | past | men = man not said here | hair | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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