Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 19
Two-Eyes said a short grace, and then began to eat; and when she had finished she pronounced the words which the wise Woman had told her:
Who acts: Two Eyes, Eye · What happens: say, begin, eat, finish, pronounce, tell · To what, where: short grace, words, wise Woman, Eye · 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 (Two Eyes, Eye), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Eyes | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Two | punct |
| 3 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 grace | det |
| 6 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grace | amod |
| 7 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 began | advmod |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 eat | mark |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 pronounced | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pronounced | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 finished | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 finished | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 finished | aux |
| 19 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 pronounced | advcl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pronounced | nsubj |
| 21 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 words | det |
| 23 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 pronounced | obj |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 told | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Woman | det |
| 26 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Woman | amod |
| 27 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 told | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 told | aux |
| 29 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 words | appos |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 told | iobj |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Two Eyes | a short grace | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent grace=Topic | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | Two Eyes not said here | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | Two Eyes not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | finish | past · perfect | Eye | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | pronounce | past | Eye | the words | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the wise Woman | Eye | 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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