Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 8
She lost her senses; and when she awoke and came to herself again, she was in a lovely meadow where the sun was shining and many thousands of flowers were growing.
Who acts: girl, sun, many thousands · What happens: lose, awake, come, be, shine, grow · To what, where: senses, girl, lovely meadow
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, sun, many thousands), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 senses | nmod:poss |
| 4 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lost | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 awoke | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 awoke | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 awoke | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 awoke | nsubj |
| 9 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lost | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lost | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 herself | case |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 came | obl |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 meadow | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 meadow | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 meadow | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 meadow | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 meadow | det |
| 20 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 meadow | amod |
| 21 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 shining | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sun | det |
| 24 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shining | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 shining | aux |
| 26 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 meadow | acl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 growing | cc |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 thousands | amod |
| 29 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 growing | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 flowers | case |
| 31 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 thousands | nmod |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 growing | aux |
| 33 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 shining | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | girl | girl's senses | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | awake | past | girl | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | girl not said here | girl | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to herself=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | is | past | girl | a lovely meadow | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | shine | past · progressive | the sun | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | grow | past · progressive | many thousands of flowers | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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