Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 4
Once it happened that Two-Eyes had to go into the forest to tend the goat; and she went very hungry, because her sisters had given her very little to eat that morning.
Who acts: it, Two Eyes, Eye · What happens: happen, have, go, tend, give, eat · To what, where: forest, goat, sisters
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 (it, 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 3 happened | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 went | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 had | mark |
| 5 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 Eyes | nummod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Two | punct |
| 7 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | xcomp |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 tend | mark |
| 15 | tend | tend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 goat | det |
| 17 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tend | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 hungry | advmod |
| 23 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 went | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 given | punct |
| 25 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 29 given | mark |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 27 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 given | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 given | aux |
| 29 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 went | parataxis |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 little | nmod:poss |
| 31 | very | very | ADV | _ | 32 little | advmod |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 given | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 eat | mark |
| 34 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 little | xcomp |
| 35 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 morning | det |
| 36 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 eat | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | Two Eyes | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | Two Eyes not said here | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | tend | to-infinitive | Two Eyes not said here | the goat | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | past | Eye | hungry property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | give | past · perfect · passive | Eye's sisters | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient little=Theme | |||||
| 7 | eat | to-infinitive | morning | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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