Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 64
When the time had elapsed, and the sentence was to be carried out, it happened that the very day had come round when her dear brothers should be set free; the six shirts were also ready, all but the last, which yet wanted the left sleeve.
Who acts: it, dear brothers, six shirts · What happens: elapse, carry out, happen, come round, be, want · To what, where: time, sentence, left sleeve
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 (it, dear brothers, six shirts), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 elapsed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 elapsed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 elapsed | aux |
| 5 | elapsed | elapse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 carried | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 carried | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sentence | det |
| 9 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 carried | aux:pass |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 carried | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 carried | aux:pass |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 elapsed | parataxis |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 carried | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 happened | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 happened | nsubj |
| 17 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 carried | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 come | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 day | det |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 day | advmod |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 come | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 happened | advcl |
| 24 | round | round | ADV | _ | 23 come | advmod |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 free | advmod |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 27 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 brothers | amod |
| 28 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 free | nsubj |
| 29 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 free | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 free | cop |
| 31 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 free | amod |
| 32 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 come | xcomp |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 ready | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 shirts | det |
| 35 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 shirts | nummod |
| 36 | shirts | shirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 ready | nsubj |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 ready | cop |
| 38 | also | also | ADV | _ | 39 ready | advmod |
| 39 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 elapsed | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 all | punct |
| 41 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 ready | obl |
| 42 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 last | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 last | det |
| 44 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 ready | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 wanted | punct |
| 46 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 wanted | nsubj |
| 47 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 48 wanted | advmod |
| 48 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 ready | parataxis |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 sleeve | det |
| 50 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 sleeve | amod |
| 51 | sleeve | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 wanted | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 elapsed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elapse | past · perfect · passive | the time | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | carry out | past · passive | the sentence | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come round | past · perfect | day | round property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | should | woman's dear brothers | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the six shirts | all obl; ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | the six shirts not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | want | past | the left sleeve | yet | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sleeve=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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