Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 30
So they brought the broom and brushed the bear's coat quite clean.
Who acts: children · What happens: bring, brush · To what, where: broom, coat
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 (children), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 brought | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 broom | det |
| 5 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 brushed | cc |
| 7 | brushed | brush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bear | det |
| 9 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coat | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 bear | case |
| 11 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brushed | obj |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 13 clean | advmod |
| 13 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 brushed | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | children = child | the broom | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent broom=Theme | ||||
| 2 | brush | past | children = child not said here | the bear's coat | clean property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=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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