Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 2
But, because her second sister had nothing out of the common in her appearance, she was looked down upon by her sisters, and despised by her mother. "
Who acts: second sister · What happens: have, look down, despise · To what, where: nothing, common, sister
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 (second sister), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 had | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 had | mark |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sister | nmod:poss |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 sister | amod |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 had | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 common | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 common | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 common | det |
| 12 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 nothing | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 appearance | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 15 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 common | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 looked | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 looked | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 looked | aux:pass |
| 19 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 had | parataxis |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 looked | compound:prt |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 sisters | case |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 sisters | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 looked | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 despised | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 despised | cc |
| 27 | despised | despise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 looked | conj |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 mother | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 mother | nmod:poss |
| 30 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 despised | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Woman's second sister | nothing | the common | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | |||
| 2 | look down | past · passive | sister | upon sister's sisters | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | despise | participle | by sister's mother | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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