Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 113
The bear quickly came towards them, but, as he reached their side, suddenly the bear-skin slipped to the ground, and there before them was standing a handsome man, completely garmented in gold, who said--
Who acts: bear, sudden, roses, gold · What happens: come, reach, slip, stand, garment, say · To what, where: side, bear skin, handsome man, gold · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, sudden, roses, gold), 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 | 2 bear | det |
| 2 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 reached | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 reached | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 reached | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 reached | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 reached | nsubj |
| 12 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 side | nmod:poss |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 skin | punct |
| 16 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 20 skin | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 skin | det |
| 18 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 skin | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 bear | punct |
| 20 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | obl |
| 21 | slipped | slip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 skin | acl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 ground | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ground | det |
| 24 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 slipped | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 standing | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 standing | cc |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 standing | advmod |
| 28 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 31 standing | mark |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 standing | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 standing | aux |
| 31 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 came | advcl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 man | det |
| 33 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 man | amod |
| 34 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 standing | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 garmented | punct |
| 36 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 37 garmented | advmod |
| 37 | garmented | garment | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 man | acl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 gold | case |
| 39 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 garmented | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 said | punct |
| 41 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 said | nsubj |
| 42 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 gold | acl:relcl |
| 43 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the bear | towards roses = rose; quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards they=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | sudden | roses's side | the bear skin obl | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent side=Theme | |||
| 3 | slip | participle | the bear skin not said here | to the ground | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | stand | past · progressive | roses = rose | a handsome man | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | garment | participle | a handsome man not said here | gold | completely property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | gold | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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