Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 43
And out of compassion she took out her butter, and greased the ruts over right and left, so that the wheels might run more easily through them, and, while she stooped in doing this, a cheese rolled out of her pocket down the mountain.
Who acts: Fred, wheels, cheese · What happens: take out, grease, leave, run, stoop, do · To what, where: butter, compassion, ruts, this, pocket
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, wheels, cheese), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 took | cc |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 compassion | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 compassion | case |
| 4 | compassion | compassion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 took | compound:prt |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 butter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 greased | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 greased | cc |
| 12 | greased | grease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ruts | det |
| 14 | ruts | rut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 greased | obj |
| 15 | over | over | ADV | _ | 16 right | advmod |
| 16 | right | right | ADV | _ | 12 greased | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 left | cc |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 greased | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 run | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 run | advmod |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 run | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wheels | det |
| 23 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 run | nsubj |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 run | aux |
| 25 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 took | parataxis |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 easily | advmod |
| 27 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 25 run | advmod |
| 28 | through | through | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 run | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 stooped | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 stooped | cc |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 stooped | punct |
| 33 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 35 stooped | mark |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 stooped | nsubj |
| 35 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 36 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 37 doing | mark |
| 37 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 stooped | advcl |
| 38 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 doing | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 cheese | punct |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 cheese | det |
| 41 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | parataxis |
| 42 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 cheese | acl |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 46 pocket | case |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 pocket | case |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 46 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 rolled | obl | ||
| 47 | down | down | ADP | _ | 49 mountain | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 mountain | det |
| 49 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 pocket | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | Fred | Fred's butter | compassion | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent butter=Theme out compassion=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | grease | past | Fred not said here | the ruts | right property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent rut=Destination | |||
| 3 | leave | past | Fred not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | run | might | the wheels | through ruts = rut; easily property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through they=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | stoop | past | Fred | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | do | gerund | Fred not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | roll out | participle | a cheese not said here | Fred's pocket down the mountain | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pocket=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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