Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 2
The youngest was called Dummerly, and was on all occasions scorned and ill-treated by the whole family.
What happens: call, be, scorn, treat · To what, where: youngest, occasions · 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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youngest | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | Dummerly | Dummerly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 occasions | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 occasions | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 occasions | cop |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 occasions | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 occasions | det |
| 11 | occasions | occasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | obl |
| 12 | scorned | scorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 occasions | acl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 treated | cc |
| 14 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 treated | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 ill | punct |
| 16 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 scorned | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 family | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 family | det |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 family | amod |
| 20 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 treated | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | the youngest | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | is | past | all occasions | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | scorn | participle | all occasions not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | treat | participle | by the whole family | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: 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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