Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 41
Presently she came to a hill, on both sides of which there were very deep ruts. "
Who acts: Fred · What happens: come · To what, where: sides
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fred), 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 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 hill | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hill | det |
| 6 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sides | punct |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 sides | case |
| 9 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 sides | det |
| 10 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 were | obl |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 were | expl |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sides | nmod |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 deep | advmod |
| 16 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ruts | amod |
| 17 | ruts | rut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 were | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sides | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Fred | both sides | to a hill; presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location |
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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