Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 40
The little sister, however, made a solemn resolution to rescue her brothers, or die in the attempt; and she left the cottage, and, penetrating deep into the forest, passed the night amid the branches of a tree.
Who acts: little sister, sister · What happens: make, rescue, die, leave, penetrate, pass · To what, where: solemn resolution, brothers, cottage, forest, night amid
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 (little sister, sister), 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 | 3 sister | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sister | amod |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sister | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 made | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 resolution | det |
| 9 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 resolution | amod |
| 10 | resolution | resolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 rescue | mark |
| 12 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 made | advcl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rescue | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 die | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 die | cc |
| 17 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 rescue | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 attempt | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 attempt | det |
| 20 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 die | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 left | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 left | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 left | nsubj |
| 24 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cottage | det |
| 26 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 left | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 penetrating | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 penetrating | cc |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 penetrating | punct |
| 30 | penetrating | penetrate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 left | advcl |
| 31 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 34 forest | advmod |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 forest | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 forest | det |
| 34 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 penetrating | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 passed | punct |
| 36 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 left | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 amid | det |
| 38 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 amid | compound |
| 39 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 passed | obj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 branches | det |
| 41 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 passed | obj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 tree | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 tree | det |
| 44 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 branches | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the little sister | a solemn resolution | however property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resolution=Product | |||
| 2 | rescue | to-infinitive | the little sister not said here | sister's brothers | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | ||||
| 3 | die | infinitive | the little sister not said here | in the attempt | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in attempt=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | leave | past | sister | the cottage | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme | ||||
| 5 | penetrate | gerund | sister not said here | the forest | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | pass | past | sister not said here | the night amid | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent amid=Recipient branch=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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