Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 119
In that I can pass the night in safety," and got into it.
Who acts: I, little fellow · What happens: pass, get · To what, where: that, safety
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 (I, little fellow), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 pass | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pass | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pass | aux |
| 5 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pass | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 safety | case |
| 9 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pass | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 safety | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 safety | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 got | cc |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pass | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 got | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | can | I | that | night | in safety | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in that=Location | ||
| 2 | get in a quote | past | the little fellow = fellow not said here | safety | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=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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