Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 7
So the girl went back to the well, and did not know what to do; and in the sorrow of her heart she jumped into the well to get the shuttle.
Who acts: girl, heart · What happens: go back, not know, do, jump, get, sorrow · To what, where: sorrow, shuttle · 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 (girl, heart), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 well | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 well | det |
| 8 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 know | cc |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 know | advmod |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 do | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 know | ccomp |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 jumped | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 jumped | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 sorrow | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sorrow | det |
| 21 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 jumped | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 heart | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 heart | nmod:poss |
| 24 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sorrow | nmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 jumped | nsubj |
| 26 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 well | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 well | det |
| 29 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 jumped | obl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 get | mark |
| 31 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 jumped | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 shuttle | det |
| 33 | shuttle | shuttle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 get | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | the girl | to the well result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to well=Result | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | jump | past | girl | the sorrow of girl's heart | into the well result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into well=Result | |||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | girl not said here | the shuttle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shuttle=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | sorrow | girl's heart | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: of=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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