Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 180
Ah, father, I have been in a mouse's hole, in a cow's stomach, and then in a wolf's; now I will stay with you." "
Who acts: I · What happens: be, stay · To what, where: hole
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), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 12 hole | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ah | vocative |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 hole | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hole | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 hole | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hole | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mouse | det |
| 10 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hole | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 mouse | case |
| 12 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stomach | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 stomach | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cow | det |
| 16 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 cow | case |
| 18 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hole | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wolf | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wolf | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 wolf | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 wolf | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 wolf | det |
| 24 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hole | parataxis |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 wolf | case |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 stay | punct |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 stay | advmod |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 stay | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 stay | aux |
| 30 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 hole | conj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 you | case |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 stay | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 stay | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 stay | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | I | a mouse's hole | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay | future | I | now | with you | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=Location |
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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