Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 95
On their way back, suddenly, once more they ran across their dwarf friend.
Who acts: maidens · What happens: run · To what, where: way
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 (maidens), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 way | nmod:poss |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | obl |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 way | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 way | punct |
| 6 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 11 ran | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 suddenly | punct |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 ran | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ran | nsubj |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | across | across | ADP | _ | 15 friend | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 friend | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 friend | amod |
| 15 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | maidens = maiden | maidens's way | across maidens's dwarf friend; suddenly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on way=Trajectory |
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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