Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 21
Then she looked for leaves and moss to make a soft couch for the Fawn, and every morning she went out and collected roots and berries and nuts for herself, and tender grass for the Fawn.
Who acts: Sister · What happens: look, make, go out, collect · To what, where: soft couch, roots
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 leaves | case |
| 5 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 moss | cc |
| 7 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaves | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 looked | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 couch | det |
| 11 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 couch | amod |
| 12 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 Fawn | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Fawn | det |
| 15 | Fawn | Fawn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 couch | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 morning | det |
| 19 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 collected | cc |
| 24 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 went | conj |
| 25 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 collected | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 berries | cc |
| 27 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 roots | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 nuts | cc |
| 29 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 roots | conj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 herself | case |
| 31 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 collected | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 grass | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 grass | cc |
| 34 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 grass | amod |
| 35 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 Fawn | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Fawn | det |
| 38 | Fawn | Fawn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 grass | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Sister | then | for leaves and moss | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for leaf=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | Sister not said here | a soft couch | for the Fawn | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent couch=Material for fawn=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | go out | past | Sister | morning | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | collect | past | Sister not said here | roots and berries and nuts | for Sister | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=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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