Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 144
When day dawned, the maid arose from her bed to feed the cows.
Who acts: maid · What happens: dawn, arise, feed · To what, where: bed, cows
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 (maid), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 dawned | advmod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dawned | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 arose | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dawned | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maid | det |
| 6 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arose | nsubj |
| 7 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 bed | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bed | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arose | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 feed | mark |
| 12 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 arose | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cows | det |
| 14 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 feed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dawn | past | the maid not said here | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arise | past | the maid | maid's bed | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feed | to-infinitive | the maid not said here | the cows | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Recipient |
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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