Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 86
Then the cask was rolled down the hill until it fell into the water.
Who acts: cask · What happens: roll down, fall · To what, where: cask, water
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 (cask), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 rolled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cask | det |
| 3 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rolled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rolled | aux:pass |
| 5 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 hill | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hill | det |
| 8 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rolled | obl |
| 9 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 fell | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rolled | advcl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll down | past · passive | the cask | then | down the hill | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme hill=Result | |||
| 2 | fall | past | cask | into the water result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result |
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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