Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 65
As she was led to the scaffold, she placed the shirts upon her arm, and just as she had mounted it, and the fire was about to be kindled, she looked around, and saw six Swans come flying through the air.
Who acts: sentence, fire, six Swans · What happens: lead, place, mount, be, kindle, look around · To what, where: sentence, scaffold, shirts, arm, air · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sentence, fire, six Swans), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 led | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 led | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | aux:pass |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 placed | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 scaffold | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 scaffold | det |
| 7 | scaffold | scaffold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 placed | nsubj |
| 10 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shirts | det |
| 12 | shirts | shirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 placed | obj |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 arm | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 arm | nmod:poss |
| 15 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 placed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 mounted | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 mounted | cc |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 mounted | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 mounted | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 mounted | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 mounted | aux |
| 22 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 placed | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 mounted | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 about | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 about | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fire | det |
| 27 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 about | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 about | cop |
| 29 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 mounted | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 kindled | mark |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 kindled | aux:pass |
| 32 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 about | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 looked | punct |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 looked | nsubj |
| 35 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 placed | parataxis |
| 36 | around | around | ADV | _ | 35 looked | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 saw | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 saw | cc |
| 39 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 looked | conj |
| 40 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 Swans | nummod |
| 41 | Swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 come | nsubj |
| 42 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 saw | ccomp |
| 43 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 come | xcomp |
| 44 | through | through | ADP | _ | 46 air | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 air | det |
| 46 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 flying | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past · passive | sentence | the scaffold | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to scaffold=Destination | ||||
| 2 | place | past | sentence | the shirts | sentence's arm | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme upon arm=Destination | |||
| 3 | mount | past · perfect · passive | sentence | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme it=Destination | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the fire | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | kindle | to-infinitive · passive | the fire not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | |||||
| 6 | look around | past | sentence | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | see | past | sentence not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | come | present | six Swans | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | fly | gerund | six Swans not said here | the air | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location |
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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