Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 31
When she had eaten her bread, they gave her a broom, saying, "Sweep away the snow with this from the back door."
Who acts: girl, Dwarfs · What happens: eat, give, say, sweep away · To what, where: bread, broom, girl, snow, back door · 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 (girl, Dwarfs), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 eaten | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 eaten | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | aux |
| 4 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 gave | advcl |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bread | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eaten | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eaten | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 broom | det |
| 12 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saying | punct |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 gave | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Sweep | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Sweep | punct |
| 17 | Sweep | sweep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 saying | ccomp |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 Sweep | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 snow | det |
| 20 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Sweep | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 this | case |
| 22 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 Sweep | obl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 door | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 door | det |
| 25 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 door | compound |
| 26 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Sweep | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 Sweep | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Sweep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · perfect | girl | girl's bread | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Dwarfs = dwarf | a broom | girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient broom=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | Dwarfs = dwarf not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | sweep away in a quote | infinitive | the snow | the back door | with this; away property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent snow=Theme from door=Trajectory |
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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