Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 95
The cart, however, drove right into the forest, and exactly to the place where the wood had been cut.
What happens: drive, cut · To what, where: cart, forest, wood
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cart | det |
| 2 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drove | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cart | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 drove | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | right | right | ADV | _ | 10 forest | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drove | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 place | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 place | cc |
| 13 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 16 place | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drove | advcl |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 cut | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wood | det |
| 19 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 cut | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 cut | aux:pass |
| 22 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 place | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | the cart | the forest | however property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into forest=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | cut | past · perfect · passive | the wood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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