Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 18
At first the Sister wept over her little, changed Brother, and he wept too, and knelt by her, very sorrowful; but at last the maiden said, "Be still, dear little fawn, and I will never forsake you!" and, taking off her golden garter, she placed it around his neck, and, weaving rushes, made a girdle to lead him with.
Who acts: Sister, brother, last, weaving · What happens: weep, change, kneel, say, be, not forsake · To what, where: little, you, golden garter, fawn, neck, rushes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sister, brother, last, weaving), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 wept | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Sister | det |
| 4 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wept | nsubj |
| 5 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 Brother | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 changed | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 little | punct |
| 10 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Brother | amod |
| 11 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wept | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wept | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wept | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wept | nsubj |
| 15 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wept | conj |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 wept | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knelt | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 knelt | cc |
| 19 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 wept | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 knelt | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sorrowful | punct |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 sorrowful | advmod |
| 24 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 knelt | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 said | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 said | cc |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 last | case |
| 28 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 said | nsubj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 maiden | det |
| 30 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 last | nsubj |
| 31 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wept | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 fawn | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 still | punct |
| 34 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 still | cop |
| 35 | still | still | ADV | _ | 39 fawn | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 fawn | punct |
| 37 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 fawn | amod |
| 38 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 fawn | amod |
| 39 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 said | ccomp |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 forsake | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 forsake | cc |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 forsake | nsubj |
| 43 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 forsake | aux |
| 44 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 45 forsake | advmod |
| 45 | forsake | forsake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 said | ccomp |
| 46 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 forsake | obj |
| 47 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 45 forsake | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 forsake | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 taking | cc |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 taking | punct |
| 51 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 said | conj |
| 52 | off | off | ADP | _ | 55 garter | case |
| 53 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 garter | nmod:poss |
| 54 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 garter | amod |
| 55 | garter | garter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 taking | obl |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 placed | punct |
| 57 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 placed | nsubj |
| 58 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wept | conj |
| 59 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 placed | obj |
| 60 | around | around | ADP | _ | 62 neck | case |
| 61 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 62 neck | nmod:poss |
| 62 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 placed | obl |
| 63 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 69 made | punct |
| 64 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 69 made | cc |
| 65 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 66 weaving | punct |
| 66 | weaving | weave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 69 made | csubj |
| 67 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 66 weaving | obj |
| 68 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 66 weaving | punct |
| 69 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wept | conj |
| 70 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 71 girdle | det |
| 71 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 69 made | obj |
| 72 | to | to | PART | _ | 73 lead | mark |
| 73 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 71 girdle | acl |
| 74 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 73 lead | obj |
| 75 | with | with | ADP | _ | 73 lead | obl |
| 76 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | the Sister | over Sister's changed Brother | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | change | participle | little | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | weep | past | brother | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | kneel | participle | brother not said here | by Sister | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by she=Location | ||||
| 5 | say speech: express | past | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | infinitive | still property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | not forsake in a quote | future | last | you | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | take off | gerund | last not said here | Sister's golden garter | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garter=Theme | ||||
| 9 | place | past | Sister | fawn | brother's neck | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme around neck=Destination | |||
| 10 | weave | gerund | rushes | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rush=Product | |||||
| 11 | make | past | weaving | a girdle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset girdle=Product | ||||
| 12 | lead | to-infinitive | weaving not said here | brother | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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