Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 35
When it was night, and all were making ready to go to bed, the widow told the bear, "You may stay here and lie by the hearth, if you like, so that you will be sheltered from the cold and from the bad weather."
Who acts: way, all, widow, bear · What happens: be, make, go, tell, stay, lie · To what, where: night, bed, bear, cold · 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 (way, all, widow, bear), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 night | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 night | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 night | cop |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 making | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 making | cc |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 making | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 making | aux |
| 9 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 night | advcl |
| 10 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 making | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ready | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 bed | case |
| 14 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 night | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 widow | det |
| 17 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | nsubj |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bear | det |
| 20 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | iobj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stay | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 stay | punct |
| 23 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 stay | nsubj |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 stay | aux |
| 25 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 told | ccomp |
| 26 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 stay | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lie | cc |
| 28 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 stay | conj |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 hearth | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 hearth | det |
| 31 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lie | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 like | punct |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 like | mark |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 like | nsubj |
| 35 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 told | ccomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 sheltered | punct |
| 37 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 42 sheltered | mark |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 so | fixed |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 sheltered | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 sheltered | aux |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 sheltered | aux:pass |
| 42 | sheltered | shelter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 like | conj |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 45 cold | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 cold | det |
| 45 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 sheltered | obl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 weather | cc |
| 47 | from | from | ADP | _ | 50 weather | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 weather | det |
| 49 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 weather | amod |
| 50 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 cold | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 told | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | way | night | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past · progressive | all | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | all not said here | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | the widow | the bear | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent bear=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | stay in a quote | may | the bear = bear | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | lie in a quote | infinitive | the bear = bear not said here | by the hearth | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by hearth=Location | ||||
| 7 | like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the bear = bear | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 8 | shelter in a quote | future · passive | the bear = bear | the cold and the bad weather | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from cold=Beneficiary |
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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