Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 2
In front of the cottage was a garden, in which were growing two rose trees; one of these bore white roses, and the other red.
Who acts: garden, one · What happens: be, grow, rise, bore · To what, where: garden, front, two, trees, white roses
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 (garden, one), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 front | case |
| 2 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 garden | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 cottage | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cottage | det |
| 5 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 front | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 garden | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rose | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 growing | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 growing | obl |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 growing | aux |
| 13 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 garden | conj |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 growing | obj |
| 15 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rose | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 bore | punct |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 bore | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 these | case |
| 20 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 one | nmod |
| 21 | bore | bore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 rose | parataxis |
| 22 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 roses | amod |
| 23 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 bore | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 red | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 red | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 other | det |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 red | amod |
| 28 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bore | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a garden | front of the cottage | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | past · progressive | two | a garden | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location two=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rise | past | a garden | trees | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bore | present | one of these | white roses | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus rose=Experiencer |
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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