Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 113
They ran thither and stuck their sticks into the mouse-hole, but it was all lost labor.
Who acts: gentlemen, hole · What happens: run, stick, lose, be · To what, where: sticks, mouse hole, lost labor
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentlemen, hole), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 2 ran | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stuck | cc |
| 5 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sticks | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stuck | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 hole | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hole | det |
| 10 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hole | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 mouse | punct |
| 12 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stuck | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 labor | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 labor | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 labor | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 labor | cop |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 labor | advmod |
| 18 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 labor | amod |
| 19 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | gentlemen = gentleman | thither property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stick | past | gentlemen = gentleman not said here | gentlemen's sticks | the mouse hole | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stick=Theme into hole=Destination | |||
| 3 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | hole | lost labor | all property | tree rules |
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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