Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 83
The sisters, however, maintained that it was theirs; but while they spoke Two-Eyes rolled a golden apple from underneath the cask, so that it travelled to the feet of the Knight, for she was angry, because her sisters had not spoken the truth.
Who acts: sisters, tree, fruits, sister · What happens: maintain, be, speak, roll, travel, not speak · To what, where: fruits, Two Eyes, golden apple, cask, feet, sisters · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sisters, tree, fruits, sister), 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 | 2 sisters | det |
| 2 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 maintained | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sisters | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 maintained | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | maintained | maintain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 theirs | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 theirs | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 theirs | cop |
| 10 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 maintained | ccomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 rolled | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 rolled | cc |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 spoke | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 spoke | nsubj |
| 15 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rolled | advcl |
| 16 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 Eyes | nummod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Two | punct |
| 18 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 spoke | obj |
| 19 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 maintained | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 apple | det |
| 21 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 apple | amod |
| 22 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rolled | obj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 cask | case |
| 24 | underneath | underneath | ADP | _ | 26 cask | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cask | det |
| 26 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rolled | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 travelled | punct |
| 28 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 31 travelled | mark |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 so | fixed |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 travelled | nsubj |
| 31 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rolled | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 feet | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 feet | det |
| 34 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 travelled | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Knight | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Knight | det |
| 37 | Knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 feet | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 angry | punct |
| 39 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 42 angry | mark |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 angry | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 angry | cop |
| 42 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 travelled | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 spoken | punct |
| 44 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 49 spoken | mark |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 46 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 spoken | aux |
| 48 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 49 spoken | advmod |
| 49 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 travelled | conj |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 truth | det |
| 51 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 spoken | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 maintained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | maintain | past | the sisters | however property | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | tree | fruits = fruit | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | fruits = fruit | Two Eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | roll | past | a golden apple | the cask | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent apple=Theme from cask=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | travel | past | tree | the feet of the Knight | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination | ||||
| 6 | is | past | sister | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not speak speech: other | past · perfect · passive | sister's sisters | tree rules |
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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