Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 96
Two-Eyes, after looking narrowly at their faces, recognized her two sisters, One-Eye and Three-Eyes, who had come to such great poverty that they were forced to wander about, begging their bread from day to day.
Who acts: Two Eyes, One Eye, such great poverty, alms · What happens: look, recognize, come, force, wander, beg · To what, where: Woman, such great poverty, alms, bread
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, One Eye, such great poverty, alms), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Eyes | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Two | punct |
| 3 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 recognized | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 looking | punct |
| 5 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 looking | mark |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Eyes | acl |
| 7 | narrowly | narrowly | ADV | _ | 6 looking | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 faces | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 faces | nmod:poss |
| 10 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Eyes | punct |
| 12 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 recognized | obj |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 sisters | nummod |
| 15 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 recognized | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Eye | punct |
| 17 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 Eye | nummod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 One | punct |
| 19 | Eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 recognized | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Eyes | cc |
| 21 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 Eyes | nummod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Three | punct |
| 23 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Eye | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 come | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 come | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 come | aux |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 Eye | acl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 poverty | case |
| 29 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 poverty | amod |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 poverty | amod |
| 31 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 come | obl |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 forced | mark |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 forced | aux:pass |
| 35 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 poverty | acl:relcl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 wander | mark |
| 37 | wander | wander | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 forced | xcomp |
| 38 | about | about | ADV | _ | 37 wander | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 begging | punct |
| 40 | begging | beg | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 forced | conj |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 bread | nmod:poss |
| 42 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 begging | obj |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 day | case |
| 44 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 begging | obl |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 day | case |
| 46 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 day | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 recognized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | Two Eyes not said here | at alms's faces; narrowly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at face=Theme | ||||
| 2 | recognize | past | Two Eyes | Woman | One Eye and Three Eyes obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | One Eye and Three Eyes | such great poverty | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to poverty=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | force | past · passive | such great poverty not said here | alms = alm | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | wander | to-infinitive | alms = alm not said here | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | beg speech: request | gerund | such great poverty not said here | alms's bread | day | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent bread=Recipient |
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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