Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 59
She obeyed, and went away and cut an ice-hole; and while she was cutting, an elegant carriage came by, in which the King sat. The carriage stopped, and the King asked, "My child, who are you? and what do you here?" "
Who acts: mother, elegant carriage, sat., King, you · What happens: obey, go away, cut, come by, stop, ask · To what, where: ice hole, child · 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 (mother, elegant carriage, sat., King), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 obeyed | nsubj |
| 2 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 obeyed | conj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cut | cc |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | conj |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hole | det |
| 10 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hole | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ice | punct |
| 12 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cut | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 cutting | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cutting | cc |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 cutting | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cutting | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 cutting | aux |
| 18 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 obeyed | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 carriage | det |
| 21 | elegant | elegant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 carriage | amod |
| 22 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 cutting | parataxis |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 came | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 stopped | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 which | case |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 stopped | obl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sat. | det |
| 29 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 sat. | nmod:desc |
| 30 | sat. | Saturday | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 33 stopped | nsubj |
| 31 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 carriage | det |
| 32 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 stopped | nsubj |
| 33 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 came | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 asked | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 asked | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 King | det |
| 37 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 asked | nsubj |
| 38 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 obeyed | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 asked | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 child | punct |
| 41 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 child | nmod:poss |
| 42 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 asked | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 here | punct |
| 44 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 52 here | nsubj |
| 45 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 who | cop |
| 46 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 who | nsubj |
| 47 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 44 who | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 here | cc |
| 49 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 52 here | nsubj |
| 50 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 here | aux |
| 51 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 52 here | nsubj |
| 52 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 child | parataxis |
| 53 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 52 here | punct |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 here | punct |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 child | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | mother | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go away | past | mother not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cut | infinitive | mother not said here | a ice hole | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product | ||||
| 4 | cut | past · progressive | mother | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | come by | past | a elegant carriage | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | stop | past | the sat. King | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | |||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | past | the King | My child | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | is a in a quote | present | you | My child | 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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