Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 12
Soon the woman conceived a deadly hatred for her step-daughter, and knew not how to behave badly enough to her from day to day.
Who acts: woman · What happens: conceive, not know, behave · To what, where: deadly hatred, woman · 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 (woman), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 conceived | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 conceived | nsubj |
| 4 | conceived | conceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hatred | det |
| 6 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hatred | amod |
| 7 | hatred | hatred | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 conceived | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 daughter | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 step | punct |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 conceived | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 knew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 knew | cc |
| 15 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 conceived | parataxis |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 knew | advmod |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 behave | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 behave | mark |
| 19 | behave | behave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 knew | ccomp |
| 20 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 behave | advmod |
| 21 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 19 behave | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 behave | obl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 day | case |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 behave | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 day | case |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 day | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 conceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conceive | past | the woman | a deadly hatred | for woman's step daughter; soon property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatred=Theme | |||
| 2 | not know | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | behave | to-infinitive | woman | day | badly, enough property | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
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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