Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 127
She had no bed to lie down on, but was made to lie by the hearth among the ashes, and they called her Cinderella.
Who acts: wife, bed, ashes · What happens: have, lie down, make, lie, call · To what, where: bed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, bed, ashes), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 bed | det |
| 4 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 lie | mark |
| 6 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 on | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADV | _ | 6 lie | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux:pass |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 lie | mark |
| 14 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 made | xcomp |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 hearth | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hearth | det |
| 17 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lie | obl |
| 18 | among | among | ADP | _ | 20 ashes | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ashes | det |
| 20 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lie | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 called | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 called | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 called | nsubj |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 Cinderella | nmod:poss |
| 26 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 called | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | wife | no bed | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie down | to-infinitive | no bed not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | past · passive | wife not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lie | to-infinitive | wife not said here | by the hearth; among the ashes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by hearth=Location | ||||
| 5 | call | past | ashes = ash | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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