Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 67
Not long afterwards the two sisters went to angle in the brook, meaning to catch fish for dinner.
Who acts: two sisters · What happens: go, mean, catch · To what, where: fish
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 (two sisters), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 went | advmod |
| 3 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sisters | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 sisters | nummod |
| 6 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 angle | mark |
| 9 | angle | angle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 brook | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 brook | det |
| 12 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 angle | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 meaning | punct |
| 14 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 went | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 catch | mark |
| 16 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 meaning | xcomp |
| 17 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 catch | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 dinner | case |
| 19 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 catch | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the two sisters | afterwards, long property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | gerund | the two sisters not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | catch not said to happen | to-infinitive | the two sisters not said here | fish | for dinner | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fish=Theme for dinner=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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