Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 5
Marriage is a comfort, but it is also a torment."
Who acts: Marriage · What happens: be · To what, where: comfort, torment
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 (Marriage), 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 | Marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comfort | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 comfort | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 comfort | det |
| 4 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 torment | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 torment | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 torment | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 torment | cop |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 torment | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 torment | det |
| 11 | torment | torment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comfort | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comfort | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 comfort | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Marriage | a comfort but a torment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Marriage | a torment | tree rules |
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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