Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 35
They are stuck fast between two mountains," replied the Dwarf; "because they were so haughty, I enchanted them there."
Who acts: sword, I · What happens: stick, reply, be, enchant · To what, where: sword, Dwarf · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sword, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stuck | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stuck | aux:pass |
| 3 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 stuck | advmod |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 mountains | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 mountains | nummod |
| 7 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stuck | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stuck | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Dwarf | det |
| 12 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 enchanted | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 enchanted | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 haughty | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 haughty | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 haughty | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 haughty | advmod |
| 19 | haughty | haughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 enchanted | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 haughty | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 enchanted | nsubj |
| 22 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 replied | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 enchanted | obj |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 enchanted | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stuck | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | present · passive | sword | between two mountains; fast property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | the Dwarf | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dwarf=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | past | sword | haughty property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | enchant | past | I | sword | there | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
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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