Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 28
Willingly," she replied, and, dividing her bread in two, she gave them half.
Who acts: girl · What happens: reply, divide, give · To what, where: bread, two, Dwarfs
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 (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 | Willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 5 replied | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Willingly | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dividing | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dividing | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dividing | punct |
| 9 | dividing | divide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 replied | advcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bread | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dividing | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 two | case |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 dividing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | nsubj |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | iobj |
| 18 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 16 gave | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | girl | willingly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | divide in a quote | gerund | girl not said here | girl's bread | two | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme | |||
| 3 | give in a quote | past | girl | Dwarfs = dwarf | half property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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