Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 57
Certainly she did put to sleep two of my eyes, but the one in the middle of my forehead luckily kept awake!"
Who acts: Table, one · What happens: put, sleep, keep · To what, where: two
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 (Table, one), 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 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sleep | mark |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 put | xcomp |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 sleep | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 two | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 kept | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 kept | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kept | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 middle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 middle | det |
| 17 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 forehead | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 20 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 middle | nmod |
| 21 | luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 22 kept | advmod |
| 22 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | parataxis |
| 23 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 kept | xcomp |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · do-support | Table | certainly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | Table not said here | two of my eyes | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | past | the one in the middle of my forehead | awake, luckily property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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