Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 18
This the old one opened, and took out an exquisite carpet, of so beautiful a design, that it certainly could have been manufactured nowhere upon the earth.
What happens: open, take out, manufacture · To what, where: old one, exquisite carpet, carpet
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: 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 one | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 one | amod |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 one | acl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | parataxis |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 took | compound:prt |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 carpet | det |
| 11 | exquisite | exquisite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 carpet | amod |
| 12 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 design | punct |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 design | case |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 beautiful | advmod |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 design | amod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 design | det |
| 18 | design | design | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 manufactured | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 manufactured | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 manufactured | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 26 manufactured | advmod |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 manufactured | aux |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 manufactured | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 manufactured | aux:pass |
| 26 | manufactured | manufacture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 took | conj |
| 27 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 manufactured | advmod |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 30 earth | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 earth | det |
| 30 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 manufactured | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | participle | the old one not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take out | past | a exquisite carpet | of a beautiful design | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent carpet=Theme of design=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | manufacture | could · perfect · passive | carpet | upon the earth; certainly, nowhere property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
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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