Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 18
said the maiden, and immediately a table covered with a white cloth stood before her, with a knife and fork, and silver spoon; and the most delicate dishes were ranged in order upon it, and everything as warm as if they had been just taken away from the fire.
Who acts: table · What happens: say, cover, stand, range, take away · To what, where: maiden, table, silver spoon, delicate dishes, order, dishes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (table), 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 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maiden | det |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 said | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stood | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stood | cc |
| 6 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 14 stood | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 table | det |
| 8 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 9 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 table | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 cloth | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cloth | det |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cloth | amod |
| 13 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 covered | obl |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 said | ccomp |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stood | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 knife | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 knife | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 knife | det |
| 20 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fork | cc |
| 22 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 knife | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 spoon | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 spoon | cc |
| 25 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 spoon | amod |
| 26 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 ranged | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 ranged | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 dishes | det |
| 30 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 31 delicate | advmod |
| 31 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 dishes | amod |
| 32 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 ranged | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 ranged | aux:pass |
| 34 | ranged | range | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 said | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 order | case |
| 36 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 ranged | obl |
| 37 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 38 it | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 order | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 everything | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 everything | cc |
| 41 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 34 ranged | obl |
| 42 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 warm | case |
| 43 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 everything | nmod |
| 44 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 50 taken | mark |
| 45 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 50 taken | mark |
| 46 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 taken | nsubj |
| 47 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 taken | aux |
| 48 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 50 taken | aux:pass |
| 49 | just | just | ADV | _ | 50 taken | advmod |
| 50 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 ranged | advcl |
| 51 | away | away | ADV | _ | 50 taken | advmod |
| 52 | from | from | ADP | _ | 54 fire | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 fire | det |
| 54 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 taken | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the maiden | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cover | participle | a table not said here | with a white cloth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cloth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | a table | silver spoon | before Woman | with a knife and fork; immediately property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location | ||
| 4 | range | past · passive | the delicate dishes | order upon order | everything obl | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 5 | take away | past · perfect · passive | dishes = dish | the fire | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme from fire=Initial_Location |
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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