Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 26
They called her in, and entering the room, she sat down on a bench by the fire to warm herself, and eat her breakfast.
Who acts: Dwarfs, girl · What happens: call in, enter, sit down, warm, eat · To what, where: girl, room, bench, breakfast
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 (Dwarfs, girl), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 2 called | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 entering | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 entering | cc |
| 7 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 called | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entering | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sat | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sat | nsubj |
| 12 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 sat | compound:prt |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 bench | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bench | det |
| 16 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | obl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 fire | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fire | det |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 warm | mark |
| 21 | warm | warm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sat | advcl |
| 22 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 warm | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 eat | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 eat | cc |
| 25 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 warm | conj |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 27 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 eat | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in speech: assert | past | Dwarfs = dwarf | girl | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | enter | gerund | Dwarfs = dwarf not said here | the room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | ||||
| 3 | sit down | past | girl | a bench | by the fire | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location | |||
| 4 | warm | to-infinitive | girl not said here | girl | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | ||||
| 5 | eat | infinitive | girl not said here | girl's breakfast | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient |
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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