Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 95
For a long time after this occurrence Two-Eyes lived in the enjoyment of the greatest happiness; and one morning two poor women came to the palace and begged an alms.
Who acts: Two Eyes, poor women · What happens: live, come, beg, enjoy · To what, where: enjoyment, palace, alms, greatest happiness
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, poor women), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 occurrence | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 occurrence | det |
| 7 | occurrence | occurrence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | nmod |
| 8 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 Eyes | nummod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Two | punct |
| 10 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 enjoyment | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 enjoyment | det |
| 14 | enjoyment | enjoyment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 happiness | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 happiness | det |
| 17 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 happiness | amod |
| 18 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 enjoyment | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 came | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 morning | cc |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 morning | nummod |
| 22 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 came | obl |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 morning | flat |
| 24 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 women | amod |
| 25 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 came | nsubj |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lived | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 palace | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 palace | det |
| 29 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 came | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 begged | cc |
| 31 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 came | conj |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 alms | det |
| 33 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 begged | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Two Eyes | the enjoyment of the greatest happiness | time | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in enjoyment=Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | poor women | the palace | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | poor women not said here | a alms | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent alm=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | enjoy | the greatest happiness | nom enjoyment «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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