Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 17
She had now no peace until she discovered where this ball was concealed, and then she made some fine silken shirts, and, as she had learnt of her mother, she sewed within each a charm.
Who acts: woman · What happens: have, discover, conceal, make, learn, sew · To what, where: peace, ball, fine silken shirts
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 had | advmod |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 peace | det |
| 5 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 discovered | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 discovered | nsubj |
| 8 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | advcl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 concealed | advmod |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 ball | det |
| 11 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 concealed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 concealed | aux:pass |
| 13 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 discovered | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 made | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 shirts | det |
| 20 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 shirts | amod |
| 21 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 shirts | amod |
| 22 | shirts | shirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 made | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sewed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 sewed | cc |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 and | punct |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 learnt | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 learnt | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 learnt | aux |
| 29 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 sewed | advcl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 mother | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 mother | nmod:poss |
| 32 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 learnt | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 learnt | punct |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 sewed | nsubj |
| 35 | sewed | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | conj |
| 36 | within | within | ADP | _ | 39 charm | case |
| 37 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 charm | det |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 charm | det |
| 39 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sewed | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | woman | no peace | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient | |||
| 2 | discover | past | woman | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | conceal | past · passive | this ball | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | make | past | woman | some fine silken shirts | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Product | |||
| 5 | learn | past · perfect | woman | of woman's mother | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of mother=Topic | ||||
| 6 | sew | past | woman | within each charm | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
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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