Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 11
The second morning, water for washing and drinking stood before both the man's daughter and the woman's; and on the third morning, water to wash in and water to drink were set before the man's daughter, and milk to wash in and wine to drink before the woman's daughter, and so it continued.
Who acts: second morning, milk · What happens: stand, wash, drink, set, continue · To what, where: milk
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second morning, milk), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 water | punct |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 washing | case |
| 7 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drinking | cc |
| 9 | drinking | drinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 washing | conj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 daughter | case |
| 12 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 14 man | cc:preconj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 man | case |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 woman | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 woman | det |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 daughter | appos |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 woman | case |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 morning | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 morning | cc |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 morning | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 morning | det |
| 25 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 morning | amod |
| 26 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 water | punct |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 morning | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 wash | mark |
| 30 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 stood | advcl |
| 31 | in | in | ADV | _ | 30 wash | advmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 water | cc |
| 33 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wash | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 drink | mark |
| 35 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 wash | advcl |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 set | aux:pass |
| 37 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 drink | ccomp |
| 38 | before | before | ADP | _ | 42 daughter | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 man | det |
| 40 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 41 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 40 man | case |
| 42 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 set | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 milk | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 milk | cc |
| 45 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obl |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 wash | mark |
| 47 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 milk | acl |
| 48 | in | in | ADV | _ | 47 wash | advmod |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 wine | cc |
| 50 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 wash | conj |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 drink | mark |
| 52 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 wash | advcl |
| 53 | before | before | ADP | _ | 57 daughter | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 woman | det |
| 55 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 56 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 55 woman | case |
| 57 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 drink | obl |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 continued | punct |
| 59 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 62 continued | cc |
| 60 | so | so | ADV | _ | 62 continued | advmod |
| 61 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 62 continued | nsubj |
| 62 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stood | parataxis |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the second morning for washing and drinking and water | milk | before the man's daughter; morning | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before daughter=Location | |||
| 2 | wash | to-infinitive | the second morning for washing and drinking and water not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drink | to-infinitive | the second morning for washing and drinking and water not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | set | past · passive | the second morning for washing and drinking and water not said here | before the man's daughter | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before daughter=Destination | ||||
| 5 | wash | to-infinitive | the second morning for washing and drinking and water not said here | milk not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | drink | to-infinitive | the second morning for washing and drinking and water not said here | before the woman's daughter | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | continue | past | milk | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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