Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 20
Presently in came the masters of the cottage, who were seven little dwarfs that lived among the mountains, and dug and searched about for gold.
Who acts: cottage, seven little dwarfs · What happens: come, be, live, dig, search · To what, where: masters, seven little dwarfs, mountains
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Snow White. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cottage, seven little dwarfs), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 came | case |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 masters | det |
| 5 | masters | master | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cottage | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cottage | det |
| 8 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 masters | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dwarfs | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 dwarfs | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dwarfs | cop |
| 12 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 dwarfs | nummod |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dwarfs | amod |
| 14 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cottage | appos |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dwarfs | acl:relcl |
| 17 | among | among | ADP | _ | 19 mountains | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mountains | det |
| 19 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lived | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dug | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dug | cc |
| 22 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 searched | cc |
| 24 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 dug | conj |
| 25 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 searched | advmod |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 gold | case |
| 27 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 searched | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the masters of the cottage | presently property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location master=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the cottage | seven little dwarfs | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | past | seven little dwarfs | the mountains | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among mountain=Location | ||||
| 4 | dig | past | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | search | past | for gold; about property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for gold=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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