Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 75
One day the woman was standing by this window and looking down into the garden, when she saw a bed which was planted with the most beautiful rampion (rapunzel), and it looked so fresh and green that she longed for it, and had the greatest desire to eat some.
Who acts: woman, garden · What happens: stand, look down, see, plant, look, long · To what, where: bed, greatest desire, some
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 (woman, garden), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 standing | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 standing | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 standing | aux |
| 6 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 window | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 window | det |
| 9 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 standing | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looking | cc |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 standing | conj |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 looking | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 garden | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 garden | det |
| 15 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looking | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 saw | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 standing | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bed | det |
| 21 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obj |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 planted | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 planted | aux:pass |
| 24 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 bed | acl:relcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 rampion | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 rampion | det |
| 27 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 28 beautiful | advmod |
| 28 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 rampion | amod |
| 29 | rampion | rampion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 planted | obl |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 rapunzel | punct |
| 31 | rapunzel | rapunzel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rampion | appos |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 rapunzel | punct |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 looked | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 looked | cc |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 looked | nsubj |
| 36 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 saw | conj |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 fresh | advmod |
| 38 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 looked | xcomp |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 green | cc |
| 40 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 fresh | conj |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 longed | mark |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 longed | nsubj |
| 43 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 fresh | advcl |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 it | case |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 longed | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 had | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 had | cc |
| 48 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 saw | conj |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 desire | det |
| 50 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 51 desire | amod |
| 51 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 had | obj |
| 52 | to | to | PART | _ | 53 eat | mark |
| 53 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 desire | acl |
| 54 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 53 eat | obj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | the woman | day | by this window | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location | |||
| 2 | look down | gerund | the woman not said here | into the garden; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into garden=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | woman | a bed | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bed=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | plant | past · passive | a bed | with the beautiful rampion | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with rampion=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | look | past | garden | fresh property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | long | past | woman | for garden | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | have | past | woman not said here | the greatest desire | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient | ||||
| 8 | eat | to-infinitive | woman not said here | some | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient |
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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