Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 8
The girl did as he bid her, but the water drew the hole together and the boot became full to overflowing.
Who acts: girl, widow, water, boot · What happens: do, bid, draw, become, overflow · To what, where: girl, hole
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, widow, water, boot), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 bid | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bid | nsubj |
| 6 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | advcl |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bid | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drew | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 drew | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drew | nsubj |
| 12 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hole | det |
| 14 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drew | obj |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 drew | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 became | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 boot | det |
| 18 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 became | nsubj |
| 19 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 drew | conj |
| 20 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 became | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 22 overflowing | mark |
| 22 | overflowing | overflow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 full | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bid | past | widow | girl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | the water | the hole | together property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | |||
| 4 | become | past | the boot | full property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | overflow | gerund | the boot not said here | 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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