Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 94
And early in the morning Fred and his wife descended, and found all their gold under the tree.
Who acts: early · What happens: descend, find · To what, where: gold, tree
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 (early), 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 | _ | 2 early | cc |
| 2 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 descended | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Fred | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Fred | det |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Fred | compound |
| 6 | Fred | Fred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 early | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wife | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Fred | conj |
| 10 | descended | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 found | cc |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 descended | conj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 gold | det:predet |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 gold | nmod:poss |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obj |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 descended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | descend | past | early | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | early not said here | branches's gold | the tree | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Topic |
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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