Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 37
The Sister, however, was terribly afraid when she saw that her Fawn was wounded, and, washing off the blood, she put herbs upon the foot, and said, "Go and rest upon your bed, dear Fawn, that your wound may heal."
Who acts: Sister, Fawn, wound, your · What happens: be, see, wash off, put, say, go · To what, where: blood, herbs, foot, dear Fawn, bed · 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, Fawn, wound, your), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sister | det |
| 2 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sister | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 afraid | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 afraid | cop |
| 7 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 8 afraid | advmod |
| 8 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 saw | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 afraid | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 wounded | mark |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Fawn | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wounded | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wounded | cop |
| 16 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 saw | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 put | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 put | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 washing | punct |
| 20 | washing | wash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 put | advcl |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 blood | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 blood | det |
| 23 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 washing | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 washing | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 put | nsubj |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 afraid | conj |
| 27 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 put | obj |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 30 foot | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 foot | det |
| 30 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 said | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 said | cc |
| 33 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 afraid | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Go | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 Go | punct |
| 36 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 33 said | ccomp |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 rest | cc |
| 38 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 36 Go | conj |
| 39 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 41 bed | case |
| 40 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 bed | nmod:poss |
| 41 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 rest | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 Fawn | punct |
| 43 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 Fawn | amod |
| 44 | Fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Go | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 heal | punct |
| 46 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 50 heal | mark |
| 47 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 wound | nmod:poss |
| 48 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 heal | nsubj |
| 49 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 heal | aux |
| 50 | heal | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 Go | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 afraid | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Sister | afraid, however, terribly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Sister | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Sister's Fawn | wounded property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wash off | gerund | Sister not said here | the blood | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient | ||||
| 5 | put | past | Sister | herbs | the foot | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent herb=Theme upon foot=Destination | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | the Sister not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | go in a quote | infinitive | dear Fawn | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | rest in a quote | infinitive | your bed | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon bed=Location | |||||
| 9 | heal in a quote | may | your wound | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 10 | wound in a quote | your | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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