Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 149
So she shook two dishes of peas into the ashes; but the little maiden went out into the garden at the back of the house, and called as before and all the birds came flying, and in half an hour's time all was done, and out they flew again.
Who acts: CINDERELLA, little maiden, birds, ashes · What happens: shake, go out, call, come, fly, do · To what, where: two dishes, ashes, garden, all · 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 (CINDERELLA, little maiden, birds, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 shook | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 dishes | nummod |
| 5 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shook | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 peas | case |
| 7 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dishes | nmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 ashes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ashes | det |
| 10 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shook | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 maiden | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 maiden | amod |
| 15 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shook | parataxis |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 garden | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 garden | det |
| 20 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 back | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 back | det |
| 23 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 house | det |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 back | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 called | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 called | cc |
| 29 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shook | parataxis |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 before | case |
| 31 | before | before | ADV | _ | 29 called | advmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 came | cc |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 birds | det:predet |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 birds | det |
| 35 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 came | nsubj |
| 36 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 called | conj |
| 37 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 came | xcomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 done | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 done | cc |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 time | case |
| 41 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 43 hour | det:predet |
| 42 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 hour | det |
| 43 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 time | nmod:poss |
| 44 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 43 hour | case |
| 45 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 done | obl |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 done | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 done | aux:pass |
| 48 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shook | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 flew | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 flew | cc |
| 51 | out | out | ADP | _ | 53 flew | mark |
| 52 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 flew | nsubj |
| 53 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shook | parataxis |
| 54 | again | again | ADV | _ | 53 flew | advmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | CINDERELLA | two dishes of peas | the ashes | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dish=Theme into ash=Destination | |||
| 2 | go out | past | the little maiden | the garden | at the back of the house; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | call | participle | before property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | past | all birds | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fly | gerund | all birds not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | do | past · passive | all | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | fly | past | ashes = ash | again | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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