Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 112
About a year after the marriage, when she had ceased to think about the little Dwarf, she brought a fine child into the world; and, suddenly, soon after its birth, the very man appeared and demanded what she had promised.
Who acts: daughter, man · What happens: cease, think, bring, appear, demand, promise · To what, where: daughter, fine child, world · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (daughter, man), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 year | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ceased | obl |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 marriage | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 marriage | det |
| 6 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 year | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ceased | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 ceased | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ceased | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ceased | aux |
| 11 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 think | mark |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ceased | xcomp |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 Dwarf | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Dwarf | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Dwarf | amod |
| 17 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 think | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brought | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 brought | nsubj |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ceased | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 child | det |
| 22 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 child | amod |
| 23 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 world | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 appeared | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 appeared | cc |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 and | punct |
| 30 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 40 appeared | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 appeared | punct |
| 32 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 appeared | advmod |
| 33 | after | after | ADP | _ | 35 birth | case |
| 34 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 birth | nmod:poss |
| 35 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 appeared | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 birth | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 man | det |
| 38 | very | very | ADV | _ | 39 man | advmod |
| 39 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 appeared | nsubj |
| 40 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ceased | parataxis |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 demanded | cc |
| 42 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 appeared | conj |
| 43 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 46 promised | obj |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 promised | nsubj |
| 45 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 promised | aux |
| 46 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 demanded | ccomp |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past · perfect · passive | daughter | year | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | about the little Dwarf | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about dwarf=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bring | past | daughter | a fine child | the world | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme into world=Destination | |||
| 4 | appear | past | the man | after world's birth | soon, suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | demand speech: request | past | the man not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 6 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | daughter | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent what=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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