Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 72
They laid themselves down right under the tree upon which Fred and Catherine were, and making a fire, prepared to share their booty.
Who acts: apples, Fred · What happens: lay down, be, make, prepare, share · To what, where: apples, tree, fire, booty
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 (apples, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 laid | nsubj |
| 2 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 laid | obj |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 laid | advmod |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 2 laid | advmod |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 laid | obl |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 were | obl |
| 11 | Fred | Fred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 were | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Catherine | cc |
| 13 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Fred | conj |
| 14 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tree | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 making | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 making | cc |
| 17 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 laid | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fire | det |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 making | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 prepared | punct |
| 21 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 making | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 share | mark |
| 23 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 prepared | xcomp |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 booty | nmod:poss |
| 25 | booty | booty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 share | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay down | past | apples = apple | apples = apple | the tree | down, right property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme under tree=Destination | ||
| 2 | be | past | Fred and Catherine | the tree | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon which=Location | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | apples = apple not said here | a fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product | ||||
| 4 | prepare | participle | apples = apple not said here | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | share not said to happen | to-infinitive | apples = apple not said here | apples's booty | tree rules |
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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