Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 97
‘I am a king’s son,’ he said, ‘and I was bewitched by that wicked dwarf, who had stolen my treasures; I have had to run about the forest as a savage bear until I was freed by his death.
Who acts: I, bear, wicked dwarf, death, my · What happens: be, say, bewitch, steal, have, run · To what, where: son, I, treasures · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, bear, wicked dwarf, death), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 son | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 son | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 king | case |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ‘ | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ‘ | INTJ | _ | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bewitched | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 bewitched | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 bewitched | aux:pass |
| 17 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 dwarf | case |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 dwarf | det |
| 20 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dwarf | amod |
| 21 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bewitched | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stolen | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 stolen | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stolen | aux |
| 25 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 dwarf | acl |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 27 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 stolen | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 had | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 had | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 had | aux |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 run | mark |
| 33 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 had | xcomp |
| 34 | about | about | ADP | _ | 36 forest | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 forest | det |
| 36 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 run | obl |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 bear | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 bear | det |
| 39 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 bear | amod |
| 40 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 run | obl |
| 41 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 44 freed | mark |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 freed | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 freed | aux:pass |
| 44 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 run | advcl |
| 45 | by | by | ADP | _ | 47 death | case |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 death | nmod:poss |
| 47 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 freed | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | a king's son | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ‘=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bewitch | past · passive | that wicked dwarf | I | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | steal | past · perfect | that wicked dwarf | my treasures | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location treasure=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | present · perfect | I | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | run | to-infinitive | I not said here | about the forest; as a savage bear | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about forest=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | free | past · passive | bear's death | I | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer subject=Source | ||||
| 8 | treasure | my | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | die | bear | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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