Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 45
The lazy girl was willing enough to go, and thought that now the golden rain would come.
Who acts: lazy girl, golden rain · What happens: be, go, think, come · 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 (lazy girl, golden rain), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 willing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 willing | cop |
| 5 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 5 willing | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 willing | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thought | cc |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 willing | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 come | mark |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 come | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rain | det |
| 15 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rain | amod |
| 16 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 willing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the lazy girl | enough, willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | the lazy girl not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | come | would | the golden rain | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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