Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 9
Along this meadow she went, and at last came to a baker's oven full of bread, and the bread cried out, "Oh, take me out! take me out! or I shall burn; I have been baked a long time!"
Who acts: girl, bread · What happens: go, come, cry out, take out, burn, bake · To what, where: last, bread · 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, bread), 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 | Along | along | ADP | _ | 3 meadow | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 meadow | det |
| 3 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 came | obl |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 oven | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 baker | det |
| 13 | baker | baker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 oven | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 baker | case |
| 15 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 oven | amod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 bread | case |
| 18 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 full | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cried | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cried | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bread | det |
| 22 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cried | nsubj |
| 23 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 cried | compound:prt |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 take | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 take | punct |
| 27 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 29 take | discourse |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Oh | punct |
| 29 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 cried | parataxis |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 take | obj |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 take | compound:prt |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 29 take | punct |
| 33 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 take | conj |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 take | obj |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 take | compound:prt |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 33 take | punct |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 burn | cc |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 burn | nsubj |
| 39 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 burn | aux |
| 40 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 cried | conj |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 baked | punct |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 baked | nsubj |
| 43 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 baked | aux |
| 44 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 45 baked | aux:pass |
| 45 | baked | bake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 went | parataxis |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 time | det |
| 47 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 time | amod |
| 48 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 baked | obl:unmarked |
| 49 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 45 baked | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | girl | along this meadow | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | past | girl not said here | last | to a baker's oven | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to oven=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | the bread | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take out in a quote | infinitive | the bread = bread | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 5 | take out in a quote | infinitive | the bread = bread | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 6 | burn in a quote | shall | the bread = bread | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 7 | bake in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the bread = bread | time | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
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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