Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 160
Thumbling did not lose courage. "
What happens: thumbl, not lose · To what, where: courage
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 | Thumbling | thumbl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 lose | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lose | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 lose | advmod |
| 4 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lose | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lose | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thumbl | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | not lose | past · do-support | courage | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Eventuality |
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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