Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 81
They had their trouble for nothing, however, for the boughs and fruit flew back as soon as they touched them. "
Who acts: fruits, boughs · What happens: have, fly back, touch, trouble · To what, where: trouble, boughs
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 (fruits, boughs), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 4 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 nothing | case |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 trouble | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flew | punct |
| 8 | however | however | ADV | _ | 15 flew | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 however | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 boughs | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boughs | det |
| 12 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 flew | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fruit | cc |
| 14 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 boughs | conj |
| 15 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 flew | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 soon | advmod |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 flew | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 touched | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 touched | nsubj |
| 21 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 soon | advcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 touched | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | fruits = fruit | fruits's trouble | for nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient | |||
| 2 | fly back | past | the boughs and fruit | however, soon property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | touch | past | fruits = fruit | boughs = bough | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | trouble | fruits = fruit | for nothing | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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