Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 36
Meanwhile, the girl had done as the Dwarf had bidden her, and had swept away the snow from behind the house.
Who acts: Dwarf · What happens: do, bid, sweep away · To what, where: girl, snow, house
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 (Dwarf), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 6 done | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 done | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | aux |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 bidden | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Dwarf | det |
| 9 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 bidden | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bidden | aux |
| 11 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 done | advcl |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bidden | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 swept | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 swept | cc |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 swept | aux |
| 16 | swept | sweep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 done | conj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 swept | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 snow | det |
| 19 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swept | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 21 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swept | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect · passive | the girl | meanwhile property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | bid | past · perfect | the Dwarf | girl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sweep away | past · perfect | the snow | the house | away property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent snow=Theme from house=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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