Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 31
After that he stretched himself out in front of the fire, and pleased himself by growling a little, only to show that he was happy and comfortable.
Who acts: Red · What happens: stretch out, growl, show, be · To what, where: Red, little · 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 (Red), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 stretched | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stretched | nsubj |
| 4 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 stretched | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 stretched | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 front | case |
| 8 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stretched | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 fire | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fire | det |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 front | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pleased | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pleased | cc |
| 14 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stretched | conj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 pleased | nsubj |
| 16 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 17 growling | mark |
| 17 | growling | growl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 pleased | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 little | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 growling | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 show | punct |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 show | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 show | mark |
| 23 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 stretched | parataxis |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 happy | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 happy | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 happy | cop |
| 27 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 show | ccomp |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 comfortable | cc |
| 29 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 happy | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | past | Red | Red | after that | in front of the fire | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in front=Topic | ||
| 2 | growl | gerund | Red not said here | a little | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Topic | ||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | Red | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | Red not said here | tree rules |
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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