Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 9
So she told her father how it had happened, and he, getting up, saw it was quite true; and going to the widow he settled the matter, and the wedding was celebrated.
Who acts: girl, it, widow, boot · What happens: tell, happen, get up, see, be, go · To what, where: father, matter, wedding · 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 (girl, it, widow, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 told | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 happened | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 happened | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 happened | aux |
| 9 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 told | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 getting | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 getting | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 getting | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 getting | punct |
| 14 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 happened | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 getting | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 true | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 true | cop |
| 20 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 21 true | advmod |
| 21 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 saw | ccomp |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 settled | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 settled | cc |
| 24 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 settled | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 widow | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 widow | det |
| 27 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 going | obl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 settled | nsubj |
| 29 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 matter | det |
| 31 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 settled | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 celebrated | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 celebrated | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 wedding | det |
| 35 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 37 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 settled | parataxis |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | girl | girl's father | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get up | gerund | widow | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | see | past | girl not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | boot | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go | gerund | widow not said here | to the widow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to widow=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | settle | past | widow | the matter | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme matter=Location | ||||
| 8 | celebrate | past · passive | the wedding | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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