Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 8
Now, it was the little old man who caused him this mischief.
Who acts: wound, little old man · What happens: be, cause · To what, where: little old man, mischief, man
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 (wound, little old man), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 man | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 man | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 caused | nsubj |
| 10 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 caused | iobj |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 mischief | det |
| 13 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caused | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | wound | the little old man | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cause | past | the little old man | this mischief | man | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer he=Theme mischief=Eventuality |
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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