Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 15
There was great astonishment over the wild man; the king, however, had him put in an iron cage in his courtyard, and forbade the door to be opened on pain of death, and the queen herself was to take the key into her keeping.
Who acts: great astonishment, king, astonishment, queen · What happens: be, have, put, forbid, open, keep · To what, where: astonishment, iron cage, door, pain, death
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 (great astonishment, king, astonishment, queen), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 astonishment | amod |
| 4 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 astonishment | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 king | punct |
| 13 | however | however | ADV | _ | 15 had | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 however | punct |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | obj |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 had | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 cage | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 cage | det |
| 20 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cage | compound |
| 21 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 courtyard | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 courtyard | nmod:poss |
| 24 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cage | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 forbade | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 forbade | cc |
| 27 | forbade | forbid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 door | det |
| 29 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 forbade | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 opened | mark |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 opened | aux:pass |
| 32 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 door | acl |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 pain | case |
| 34 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 opened | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 death | case |
| 36 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 pain | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 take | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 take | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 queen | det |
| 40 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 take | nsubj |
| 41 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 44 take | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 take | cop |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 take | mark |
| 44 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 was | parataxis |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 key | det |
| 46 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 take | obj |
| 47 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 49 keeping | mark |
| 48 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 keeping | nmod:poss |
| 49 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 44 take | advcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | great astonishment over the wild man | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the king | astonishment | however property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | put | participle | astonishment not said here | a iron cage in astonishment's courtyard | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in cage=Destination | ||||
| 4 | forbid | past | the door | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer door=Theme | |||||
| 5 | open | to-infinitive · passive | the door not said here | pain of death | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: on pain=Location | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the queen | take property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | keep | gerund | the queen not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | pain | death | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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