Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 78
There was nothing left but again to make use of the scissors; so they were taken out, and the tangled portion was cut off.
Who acts: nothing · What happens: be, leave, make, take out, tangle, cut off · To what, where: use, girls, tangled portion, scissors
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 (nothing), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 nothing | acl |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 again | cc |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 left | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 left | advcl |
| 9 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 scissors | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 scissors | det |
| 12 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 use | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 taken | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 taken | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 taken | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 taken | aux:pass |
| 17 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 was | parataxis |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 taken | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 cut | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 cut | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 portion | det |
| 22 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 portion | amod |
| 23 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 cut | aux:pass |
| 25 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 taken | conj |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 cut | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | use of the scissors | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product | |||||
| 4 | take out | past · passive | girls = girl | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | tangle | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | cut off | past · passive | the tangled portion | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | use | the scissors | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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