Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 67
The King, not thinking of an evil design, came again the next morning the first thing; and when he spoke to his wife, and she answered, a toad sprang out of her mouth at every word, as a piece of gold had done before.
Who acts: King, wife, toad, piece · What happens: not think, come, speak, answer, spring out, do · To what, where: toad, mouth, word · 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 (King, wife, toad, piece), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thinking | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 thinking | advmod |
| 5 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 King | acl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 design | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 design | det |
| 8 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 design | amod |
| 9 | design | design | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thinking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 morning | det |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 morning | amod |
| 15 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thing | det |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 thing | amod |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 morning | appos |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 spoke | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 spoke | cc |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 spoke | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 spoke | nsubj |
| 23 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 wife | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wife | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spoke | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 answered | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 answered | cc |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 answered | nsubj |
| 30 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 toad | punct |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 toad | det |
| 33 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 answered | obj |
| 34 | sprang | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 toad | acl |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 mouth | case |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 mouth | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 38 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sprang | obl |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 word | case |
| 40 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 word | det |
| 41 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sprang | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 piece | punct |
| 43 | as | as | ADP | _ | 45 piece | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 piece | det |
| 45 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 done | nsubj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 gold | case |
| 47 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 piece | nmod |
| 48 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 done | aux |
| 49 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 toad | acl:relcl |
| 50 | before | before | ADV | _ | 49 done | advmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | gerund | the King not said here | of a evil design | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the King | again; morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | King | to King's wife | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to wife=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | wife | a toad | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent toad=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | spring out | gerund | a toad not said here | wife's mouth | every word | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mouth=Theme | |||
| 6 | do | past · perfect | a piece of gold | a toad not said here | before property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toad=Eventuality |
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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