Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 23
Far and near there was nothing but snow, and not a green blade was to be seen.
Who acts: nothing · What happens: be, see · To what, where: green blade
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 (nothing), 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 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 was | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 near | cc |
| 3 | near | near | ADV | _ | 1 Far | conj |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 was | nsubj |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 snow | cc |
| 8 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nothing | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seen | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seen | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 blade | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 blade | det |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 blade | amod |
| 14 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seen | aux:pass |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 seen | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 seen | aux:pass |
| 18 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 was | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | nothing | there | far property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past · passive | a green blade | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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