Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 30
Then she unfastened the little door, and he went in, and rested all night long upon his soft couch.
Who acts: Sister, King · What happens: unfasten, go in, rest · To what, where: little door, soft couch
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, King), 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 unfastened | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 unfastened | nsubj |
| 3 | unfastened | unfasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 door | amod |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 unfastened | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 unfastened | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rested | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rested | cc |
| 14 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 unfastened | conj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 night | det |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rested | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 rested | advmod |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 couch | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 couch | nmod:poss |
| 20 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 couch | amod |
| 21 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rested | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 unfastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unfasten | past | Sister | the little door | then | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||
| 2 | go in | past | King | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rest | past | Sister not said here | King's soft couch | night | long property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon couch=Location |
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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