Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 84
Then he took up a sack full of precious stones, and slipped away again under the rock into his hole.
Who acts: eagle · What happens: take up, slip away · To what, where: sack, rock
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sack | det |
| 6 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sack | amod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 stones | case |
| 9 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stones | amod |
| 10 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 full | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 slipped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 slipped | cc |
| 13 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 slipped | advmod |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 slipped | advmod |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 rock | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rock | det |
| 18 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slipped | obl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 hole | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hole | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slipped | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | eagle | a sack | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme | |||
| 2 | slip away | past | eagle not said here | the rock | again | into eagle's hole; away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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