Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 33
So they went home, and after Two-Eyes had left her meal untouched, the mother inquired of One-Eye what she had seen, and she was obliged to confess that she had been asleep.
Who acts: kid, mother, Eye · What happens: go, leave, inquire, see, oblige, confess · To what, where: meal, 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 (kid, mother, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 left | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 left | cc |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 Eyes | case |
| 8 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 Eyes | nummod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Two | punct |
| 10 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 left | obl |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | aux |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 meal | nmod:poss |
| 14 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 left | obj |
| 15 | untouched | untouched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 left | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 inquired | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mother | det |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 inquired | nsubj |
| 19 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Eye | case |
| 21 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 Eye | nummod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 One | punct |
| 23 | Eye | Eye | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 inquired | obl |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 seen | obj |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 seen | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 seen | aux |
| 27 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 inquired | ccomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 obliged | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 obliged | cc |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 obliged | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 obliged | aux:pass |
| 32 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 confess | mark |
| 34 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 obliged | xcomp |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 asleep | mark |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 asleep | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 asleep | aux |
| 38 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 asleep | cop |
| 39 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 confess | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | kid | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | kid not said here | Eye's meal | after Two Eyes | untouched property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Theme | ||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | past | the mother | of One Eye | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of eye=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | Eye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | oblige | past · passive | Eye | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 6 | confess | to-infinitive | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | is | past · perfect | Eye | asleep 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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