Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 71
And she nursed the child, as she usually did, and then disappeared.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: nurse, do, disappear · To what, where: child
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 (Queen), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 nursed | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 nursed | nsubj |
| 3 | nursed | nurse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nursed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 did | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 did | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 did | nsubj |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 10 did | advmod |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 nursed | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 disappeared | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 disappeared | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 disappeared | advmod |
| 14 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 nursed | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nursed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nurse | past | Queen | the child | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | do | past | Queen | usually property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | disappear | past | Queen not said here | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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