Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 4
Now it happened that one day the shuttle was marked with her blood, so she dipped it in the well, to wash the mark off; but it dropped out of her hand and fell to the bottom.
Who acts: it, girl, shuttle · What happens: happen, mark, dip, wash off, drop out, fall · To what, where: shuttle, well, mark, hand
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 (it, girl, shuttle), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 marked | mark |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 day | nummod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 marked | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shuttle | det |
| 8 | shuttle | shuttle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 marked | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 marked | aux:pass |
| 10 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 happened | advcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 blood | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 blood | nmod:poss |
| 13 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 marked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dipped | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 dipped | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 dipped | nsubj |
| 17 | dipped | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 dipped | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 well | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 well | det |
| 21 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dipped | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wash | punct |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 wash | mark |
| 24 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 dipped | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mark | det |
| 26 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wash | obj |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 wash | compound:prt |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 dropped | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 dropped | cc |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 dropped | nsubj |
| 31 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | parataxis |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 hand | case |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 hand | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 hand | nmod:poss |
| 35 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dropped | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 fell | cc |
| 37 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 dropped | conj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 bottom | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 bottom | det |
| 40 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 fell | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mark | past · passive | the shuttle | day | with girl's blood | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with blood=Theme | |||
| 3 | dip | past | girl | shuttle | the well | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme in well=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | wash off | to-infinitive | girl not said here | the mark | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient | ||||
| 5 | drop out | past | shuttle | girl's hand | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fall | past | shuttle not said here | to the bottom | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bottom=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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