Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 29
And as she went into the yard the cock cried: "Cock-a-doodle-doo!
Who acts: maiden, cock · What happens: go, cry, doo · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, cock), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cried | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 went | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | advcl |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 yard | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 yard | det |
| 7 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cock | det |
| 9 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 doo | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 doo | punct |
| 13 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 doo | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 doo | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 doo | det |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 a | punct |
| 17 | doodle | doodle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 doo | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 doodle | punct |
| 19 | doo | doo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | maiden | into the yard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into yard=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the cock | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | doo in a quote | Cock | 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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