Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 6
All the dishes were ready to be taken in, and they were standing upon the hearth.
Who acts: dishes · What happens: be, take in, stand · To what, where: hearth
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Travels of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dishes), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 dishes | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dishes | det |
| 3 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ready | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | cop |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 taken | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 taken | aux:pass |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ready | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 taken | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 standing | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 standing | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 standing | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 standing | aux |
| 14 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 ready | advcl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 hearth | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hearth | det |
| 17 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 standing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all dishes | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take in | to-infinitive · passive | all dishes not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | stand | past · progressive | dishes = dish | the hearth | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon hearth=Location |
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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