Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 2
These two maidens were friendly with each other, and used to walk together, and one day they came by the widow's house.
Who acts: two maidens, maidens · What happens: be, use, walk, come
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 (two maidens, 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 maidens | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 maidens | nummod |
| 3 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 friendly | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 friendly | cop |
| 5 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 each | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 5 friendly | obl |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 each | fixed |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 used | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 used | cc |
| 11 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 friendly | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 walk | mark |
| 13 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 used | xcomp |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 walk | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 day | nummod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 friendly | parataxis |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 widow | det |
| 23 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 house | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 widow | case |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 friendly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this two maidens | with each; friendly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | participle | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | walk | to-infinitive | together property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | past | maidens = maiden | day | by the widow's house | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by house=Location |
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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