Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 43
One day the mother sent her children into the wood to pick up sticks.
Who acts: mother · What happens: send, pick up · To what, where: children, wood, sticks
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 (mother), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mother | det |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 children | nmod:poss |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sent | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 pick | mark |
| 12 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sent | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 pick | compound:prt |
| 14 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pick | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the mother | mother's children | the wood | day | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ||
| 2 | pick up | to-infinitive | the mother not said here | sticks | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Topic |
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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