Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 75
So Two-Eyes climbed the tree, and directly she touched the boughs the golden apples fell into her hands, so that she plucked them as fast as she could, and filled her apron before she went down.
Who acts: Two Eyes, Eye, golden apples · What happens: climb, touch, fall, pluck, fill, go down · To what, where: tree, boughs, hands, apron
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 Eyes, Eye, golden apples), 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 | _ | 5 climbed | advmod |
| 2 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 Eyes | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Two | punct |
| 4 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 climbed | nsubj |
| 5 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climbed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 touched | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 touched | cc |
| 10 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 12 touched | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 touched | nsubj |
| 12 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 climbed | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boughs | det |
| 14 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 touched | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 apples | det |
| 16 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 apples | amod |
| 17 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fell | nsubj |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 touched | parataxis |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 hands | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hands | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fell | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 plucked | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 plucked | advmod |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 plucked | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 plucked | nsubj |
| 26 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 climbed | conj |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 plucked | obj |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | _ | 29 fast | advmod |
| 29 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 plucked | advmod |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 could | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 could | nsubj |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 fast | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 filled | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 filled | cc |
| 35 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 climbed | conj |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 apron | nmod:poss |
| 37 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 filled | obj |
| 38 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 40 went | mark |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 went | nsubj |
| 40 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 filled | advcl |
| 41 | down | down | ADV | _ | 40 went | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | Two Eyes | the tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 2 | touch | past | Eye | the boughs | directly property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bough=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | fall | past | the golden apples | into Eye's hands result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result | ||||
| 4 | pluck | past | Eye | boughs = bough | fast property | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 5 | fill | past | Two Eyes not said here | Eye's apron | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent apron=Patient | ||||
| 6 | go down | past | Eye | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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