Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 22
This is capital housekeeping," said the maiden, in high glee; and at evening she went home with her goat, and found an earthen dish which her sisters had left her filled with their leavings.
Who acts: This, maiden, Table, sisters · What happens: be, say, go, find, leave, fill · To what, where: capital housekeeping, earthen dish · 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 (This, maiden, Table, sisters), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 housekeeping | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 housekeeping | cop |
| 3 | capital | capital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 housekeeping | amod |
| 4 | housekeeping | housekeeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 housekeeping | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 housekeeping | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 maiden | det |
| 9 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 glee | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 glee | case |
| 12 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 glee | amod |
| 13 | glee | glee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 maiden | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 evening | case |
| 17 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 goat | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 goat | nmod:poss |
| 23 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 found | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 found | cc |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 went | conj |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 dish | det |
| 28 | earthen | earthen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 dish | amod |
| 29 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 found | obj |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 left | obj |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 32 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 left | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 left | aux |
| 34 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 dish | acl:relcl |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 filled | nmod:poss |
| 36 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 left | conj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 leavings | case |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 leavings | nmod:poss |
| 39 | leavings | leaving | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 left | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | capital housekeeping | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the maiden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | past | Table | evening | with Table's goat; home property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with goat=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | find in a quote | past | Table not said here | a earthen dish | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Topic | ||||
| 5 | leave in a quote | past · perfect | Table's sisters | a earthen dish | with dishes's leavings | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent which=Recipient with leaving=Theme | |||
| 6 | fill in a quote | participle | Table's sisters not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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