Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 64
Immediately the dwarf felt that he was free he seized a sack full of gold that was hidden amongst the tree's roots, and, lifting it up, grumbled out, "Clumsy creatures, to cut off a bit of my beautiful beard, of which I am so proud!
Who acts: dwarf, beard, lifting · What happens: feel, be, seize, hide, lift up, grumble out · To what, where: Clumsy creatures, sack, gold, roots, bit · 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 (dwarf, beard, lifting), 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 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 felt | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dwarf | det |
| 3 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 free | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 free | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 free | cop |
| 8 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | xcomp |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seized | nsubj |
| 10 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 free | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sack | det |
| 12 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seized | obj |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sack | amod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 gold | case |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 full | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 hidden | aux:pass |
| 18 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 gold | acl:relcl |
| 19 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 23 roots | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tree | det |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 roots | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 tree | case |
| 23 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hidden | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 grumbled | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 grumbled | cc |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lifting | punct |
| 27 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 grumbled | csubj:pass |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 lifting | obj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 lifting | compound:prt |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 grumbled | punct |
| 31 | grumbled | grumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 felt | conj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 grumbled | compound:prt |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 creatures | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 creatures | punct |
| 35 | Clumsy | clumsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 creatures | amod |
| 36 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 felt | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 cut | punct |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 cut | mark |
| 39 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 felt | conj |
| 40 | off | off | ADP | _ | 39 cut | compound:prt |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 bit | det |
| 42 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 cut | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 beard | case |
| 44 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 beard | nmod:poss |
| 45 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 beard | amod |
| 46 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 bit | nmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 proud | punct |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 which | case |
| 49 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 53 proud | obl |
| 50 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 53 proud | nsubj |
| 51 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 proud | cop |
| 52 | so | so | ADV | _ | 53 proud | advmod |
| 53 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 cut | parataxis |
| 54 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the dwarf | Clumsy creatures | immediately property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | beard | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seize | past | beard | a sack | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hide | past · passive | gold | the tree's roots | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient amongst root=Location | ||||
| 5 | lift up | gerund | sack | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 6 | grumble out speech: other | participle | lifting | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | cut off in a quote | to-infinitive | the dwarf not said here | a bit of my beautiful beard | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector bit=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | is in a quote | present | lifting | proud property | 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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