Grimm's Fairy Stories, Briar Rose, sentence 28
Now that very day the hundred years were completed; and as the prince came to the thicket he saw nothing but beautiful flowering shrubs, through which he passed with ease, and they closed after him as firm as ever.
Who acts: prince, man, princes · What happens: complete, come, see, pass, close · To what, where: hundred years, thicket, nothing
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, man, princes), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 completed | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 day | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 day | advmod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 completed | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 years | det |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 completed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 completed | aux:pass |
| 9 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 came | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 saw | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 thicket | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thicket | det |
| 18 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 completed | parataxis |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 saw | obj |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 shrubs | cc |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 shrubs | amod |
| 24 | flowering | flowering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shrubs | compound |
| 25 | shrubs | shrub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 nothing | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 passed | punct |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 passed | obl |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 passed | nsubj |
| 30 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 saw | parataxis |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 ease | case |
| 32 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 passed | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 closed | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 closed | cc |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 closed | nsubj |
| 36 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 saw | conj |
| 37 | after | after | ADP | _ | 38 him | case |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 closed | obl |
| 39 | as | as | ADV | _ | 40 firm | advmod |
| 40 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 closed | xcomp |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 42 ever | case |
| 42 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 40 firm | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 completed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complete | past · passive | the hundred years | now; day | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the prince | the thicket | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to thicket=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | see | past | man | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | pass | past | man | with ease | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through which=Location | ||||
| 5 | close | past | princes = prince | after man | firm property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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