Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 29
Just then she saw a rough-looking hut, and going in, she found a room with six little beds, but she dared not get into one, so crept under, and laying herself upon the hard earth, prepared to pass the night there.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: see, look, go in, find, get, creep · To what, where: looking hut, room, maiden, hard earth
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 (maiden), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hut | det |
| 6 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 looking | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 rough | punct |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 hut | amod |
| 9 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 going | cc |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 saw | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 going | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 found | nsubj |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 room | det |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 beds | case |
| 20 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 beds | nummod |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 beds | amod |
| 22 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 room | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 get | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 get | cc |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 get | nsubj |
| 26 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 get | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 dared | advmod |
| 28 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 saw | conj |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 one | case |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 get | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 crept | punct |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 crept | advmod |
| 33 | crept | creep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | conj |
| 34 | under | under | ADP | _ | 33 crept | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 laying | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 laying | cc |
| 37 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 saw | conj |
| 38 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 37 laying | obj |
| 39 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 42 earth | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 earth | det |
| 41 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 earth | amod |
| 42 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 laying | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 prepared | punct |
| 44 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 laying | advcl |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 pass | mark |
| 46 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 prepared | xcomp |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 night | det |
| 48 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 pass | obj |
| 49 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 46 pass | advmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | maiden | a looking hut | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | go in | gerund | maiden not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | past | maiden | a room | with six little beds | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Topic | |||
| 5 | get | past | maiden | into one | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into one=Destination | ||||
| 6 | creep | participle | maiden not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | lay | gerund | maiden not said here | maiden | the hard earth | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme upon earth=Destination | |||
| 8 | prepare | participle | maiden not said here | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 9 | pass not said to happen | to-infinitive | maiden not said here | there | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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