Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 98
Then he set up another, and whir, whir, whir, thrice round again, and a second bobbin was full; and so he went all night long, until all the straw was spun, and the bobbins were full of gold.
Who acts: necklace, second bobbin, bobbins · What happens: set up, be, go, spin · To what, where: another, straw
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 (necklace, second bobbin, bobbins), 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 | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 set | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 whir | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 whir | cc |
| 8 | whir | whir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 whir | punct |
| 10 | whir | whir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whir | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 whir | punct |
| 12 | whir | whir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whir | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thrice | punct |
| 14 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 whir | conj |
| 15 | round | round | ADV | _ | 14 thrice | advmod |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 thrice | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 full | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 full | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bobbin | det |
| 20 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 bobbin | amod |
| 21 | bobbin | bobbin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 full | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 full | cop |
| 23 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 set | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 went | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 went | nsubj |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 night | det |
| 30 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 went | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 went | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 spun | punct |
| 33 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 38 spun | mark |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 straw | det:predet |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 straw | det |
| 36 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 spun | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 spun | aux:pass |
| 38 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 went | parataxis |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 full | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 full | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 bobbins | det |
| 42 | bobbins | bobbin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 full | nsubj |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 full | cop |
| 44 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 spun | conj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 gold | case |
| 46 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 full | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set up | past | necklace | another | then | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient another=Result | |||
| 2 | is | past | a second bobbin | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | past | necklace | night | long property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | spin | past · passive | all straw | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | the bobbins | of gold; 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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