Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 93
Then he picked up a sack of jewels, and slipped out of sight behind a piece of rock.
Who acts: voice · What happens: pick up, slip out · To what, where: sack, sight, piece
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 (voice), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 picked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 picked | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sack | det |
| 6 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 jewels | case |
| 8 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sack | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 slipped | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 slipped | cc |
| 11 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 sight | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sight | case |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slipped | obl |
| 15 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 17 piece | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 piece | det |
| 17 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slipped | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 rock | case |
| 19 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 piece | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | voice | a sack of jewels | then | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Topic | |||
| 2 | slip out | past | voice not said here | sight | a piece of rock | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent sight=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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