Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 167
And when they came back into the kitchen, there lay Cinderella in the ashes as usual; for she had slipped down on the other side of the tree, and carried her beautiful clothes back to the bird at the hazel-tree, and then put on her little old frock.
Who acts: sons, CINDERELLA · What happens: come back, lie, slip down, carry, put · To what, where: kitchen, Cinderella, ashes, other side, beautiful clothes, bird
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 (sons, CINDERELLA), 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 | _ | 11 lay | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lay | advcl |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 kitchen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 kitchen | det |
| 8 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 lay | expl |
| 11 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 ashes | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ashes | det |
| 15 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lay | obl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 usual | case |
| 17 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lay | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 slipped | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 slipped | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 slipped | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 slipped | aux |
| 22 | slipped | slip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 lay | conj |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 slipped | compound:prt |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 side | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 side | det |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 side | amod |
| 27 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 slipped | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 tree | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tree | det |
| 30 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 side | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 carried | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 carried | cc |
| 33 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 slipped | parataxis |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 35 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 clothes | amod |
| 36 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 33 carried | obj |
| 37 | back | back | ADV | _ | 33 carried | advmod |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 bird | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 bird | det |
| 40 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 carried | obl |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 45 tree | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 tree | det |
| 43 | hazel | hazel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 tree | compound |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 hazel | punct |
| 45 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 carried | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 put | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 put | cc |
| 48 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 49 put | advmod |
| 49 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 carried | conj |
| 50 | on | on | ADP | _ | 54 frock | case |
| 51 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 frock | nmod:poss |
| 52 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 frock | amod |
| 53 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 frock | amod |
| 54 | frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 put | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | sons = son | the kitchen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | Cinderella | the ashes; there | as usual | tree rules | |||
| 3 | slip down | past · perfect | CINDERELLA | the other side of the tree | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | carry | past | CINDERELLA's beautiful clothes | the bird | the hazel tree | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme to bird=Destination | |||
| 5 | put | infinitive | CINDERELLA's little old frock | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on frock=Destination |
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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