Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 17
Immediately the young toad fetched a large box.
Who acts: young toad · What happens: fetch · To what, where: large box
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young toad), 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 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 5 fetched | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 toad | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 toad | amod |
| 4 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fetched | nsubj |
| 5 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 box | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 box | amod |
| 8 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fetched | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fetched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | past | the young toad | a large box | immediately property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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