Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 73
These people had a little window at the back of their house from which a splendid garden could be seen, which was full of the most beautiful flowers and herbs.
Who acts: people · What happens: have, see, be · To what, where: little window, back, splendid garden, house
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 (people), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 window | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 window | amod |
| 6 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 back | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 back | det |
| 9 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 house | nmod:poss |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 back | nmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 seen | obl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 garden | det |
| 16 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 garden | amod |
| 17 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 seen | aux:pass |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 house | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 full | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 full | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 full | cop |
| 24 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 seen | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 flowers | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 flowers | det |
| 27 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 28 beautiful | advmod |
| 28 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 flowers | amod |
| 29 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 full | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 herbs | cc |
| 31 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 flowers | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | this people | a little window | the back of people's house | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient | |||
| 2 | see | could · passive | a splendid garden | people's house | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | of the beautiful flowers and herbs; full property | tree rules |
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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