Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 44
Mother Holle was soon tired of this, and gave her notice to leave.
Who acts: Mother · What happens: be, give, leave, notice · To what, where: notice
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 (Mother), 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 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tired | nsubj |
| 2 | Holle | Holle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mother | appos |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tired | cop |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 tired | advmod |
| 5 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 tired | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gave | cc |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tired | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 notice | nmod:poss |
| 12 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 leave | mark |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 gave | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Mother | of this; soon, tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Mother not said here | mother's notice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | Mother not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | notice | mother | nom notice «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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