Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 146
He, however, was sleeping so soundly that he was aware of nothing, and did not awake until he was in the mouth of the cow, who had picked him up with the hay. "
Who acts: rascal, cow · What happens: sleep, be, do, pick up · To what, where: mouth, rascal
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 (rascal, cow), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sleeping | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 He | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 sleeping | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sleeping | aux |
| 6 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 soundly | advmod |
| 8 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 12 aware | advmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 aware | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 aware | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 aware | cop |
| 12 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sleeping | ccomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 nothing | case |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 aware | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 did | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 did | cc |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sleeping | conj |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 awake | advmod |
| 19 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 did | xcomp |
| 20 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 25 mouth | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 mouth | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 mouth | cop |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 mouth | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 mouth | det |
| 25 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 did | advcl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 cow | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 cow | det |
| 28 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mouth | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 picked | punct |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 picked | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 picked | aux |
| 32 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 cow | acl:relcl |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 picked | obj |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 picked | compound:prt |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 hay | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 hay | det |
| 37 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 picked | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sleeping | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sleeping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past · progressive | rascal | however property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | rascal | of nothing; aware, soundly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | past | rascal not said here | awake property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | rascal | the mouth | of the cow | tree rules | |||
| 5 | pick up | past · perfect | the cow | rascal | with the hay | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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