Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 47
He took it quickly out, but it was already quite gilded.
Who acts: boy · What happens: take, gild · To what, where: care
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 (boy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 5 out | advmod |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 took | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gilded | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 gilded | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gilded | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 gilded | aux |
| 10 | already | already | ADV | _ | 12 gilded | advmod |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 gilded | advmod |
| 12 | gilded | gild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 took | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | boy | care | out property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | gild | past · passive | care | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
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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