Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 71
Three-Eyes, however, was not more fortunate than her sister, for the golden apples flew back as soon as she touched them.
Who acts: Three Eyes, golden apples, Eye · What happens: not be, fly back, touch · To what, where: fruits
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 (Three Eyes, golden apples, 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Eyes | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Three | punct |
| 3 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fortunate | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Eyes | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 fortunate | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fortunate | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 fortunate | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 fortunate | advmod |
| 10 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 sister | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sister | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fortunate | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 flew | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 flew | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 apples | det |
| 17 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 apples | amod |
| 18 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 flew | nsubj |
| 19 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fortunate | conj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 flew | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 soon | advmod |
| 22 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 flew | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 touched | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 touched | nsubj |
| 25 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 soon | advcl |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 touched | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fortunate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Three Eyes | than Eye's sister; fortunate, however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly back | past | the golden apples | soon property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | touch | past | Eye | fruits = fruit | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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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