Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 157
She was killed, but the stomach, in which Thumbling was, was thrown on the midden.
What happens: kill, throw · To what, where: spirit, Thumbling, midden
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: 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | aux:pass |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stomach | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 stomach | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stomach | det |
| 7 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thrown | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 thrown | obl |
| 11 | Thumbling | thumbling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thrown | aux:pass |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thrown | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thrown | aux:pass |
| 15 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 killed | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 midden | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 midden | det |
| 18 | midden | midden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thrown | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | spirit | the stomach obl | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw | past · passive | Thumbling | the midden | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in which=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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