Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 3
So all day long they travelled over meadows, fields, and stony roads.
Who acts: they · What happens: travel · To what, where: stony roads, meadows
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 (they), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 travelled | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 travelled | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 day | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 travelled | nsubj |
| 6 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 meadows | case |
| 8 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 travelled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fields | punct |
| 10 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 meadows | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 roads | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 roads | cc |
| 13 | stony | stony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 roads | amod |
| 14 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 travelled | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | they | stony roads | meadows and fields | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over meadow=Trajectory |
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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