Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 97
The Dwarf took it, placed himself in front of the wheel, and whirr, whirr, whirr, three times round, and the bobbin was full.
Who acts: Dwarf, bobbin · What happens: take, place, be · To what, where: gold, necklace, front
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 (Dwarf, bobbin), 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 Dwarf | det |
| 2 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 placed | punct |
| 6 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 placed | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 front | case |
| 9 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 placed | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wheel | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wheel | det |
| 12 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 front | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 whirr | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 whirr | cc |
| 15 | whirr | whirr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 whirr | punct |
| 17 | whirr | whirr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 whirr | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 whirr | punct |
| 19 | whirr | whirr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 whirr | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 round | punct |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 times | nummod |
| 22 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 round | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 full | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 full | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bobbin | det |
| 27 | bobbin | bobbin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 full | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 full | cop |
| 29 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 took | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Dwarf | gold | round property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | place | past | the Dwarf not said here | necklace | front of the wheel | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in front=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | past | the bobbin | full property | 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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