Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 67
The two elder sisters were quite ignorant how the tree came where it stood; but Two-Eyes perceived that it was produced by the goat's entrails, for it stood on the exact spot where she had buried them.
Who acts: two elder sisters, tree, Two Eyes, entrails, sister · What happens: be, come, stand, perceive, produce, bury · To what, where: tree, exact spot, entrails
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 (two elder sisters, tree, Two Eyes, entrails), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sisters | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 sisters | nummod |
| 3 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sisters | amod |
| 4 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ignorant | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ignorant | cop |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 ignorant | advmod |
| 7 | ignorant | ignorant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 came | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ignorant | advcl |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 stood | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | advcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 perceived | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 perceived | cc |
| 17 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 Eyes | nummod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Two | punct |
| 19 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 perceived | nsubj |
| 20 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ignorant | parataxis |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 produced | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 produced | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 produced | aux:pass |
| 24 | produced | produce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 perceived | ccomp |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 entrails | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 goat | det |
| 27 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 entrails | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 goat | case |
| 29 | entrails | entrail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 produced | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 stood | punct |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 33 stood | mark |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 stood | nsubj |
| 33 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 perceived | conj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 spot | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 spot | det |
| 36 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 spot | amod |
| 37 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 stood | obl |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 41 buried | advmod |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 buried | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 buried | aux |
| 41 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 spot | acl:relcl |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 buried | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ignorant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the two elder sisters | ignorant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | perceive | past | Two Eyes | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | produce | past · passive | the goat's entrails | tree | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result | ||||
| 6 | stand | past | tree | the exact spot | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on spot=Location | ||||
| 7 | bury | past · perfect | sister | entrails = entrail | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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