Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 50
There is the tree where seven fellows have married the hempen maid, and now swing to and fro.
Who acts: tree · What happens: be, marry, swing, fro · To what, where: seven fellows
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 married | advmod |
| 6 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 fellows | nummod |
| 7 | fellows | fellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 married | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 married | aux |
| 9 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tree | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 maid | det |
| 11 | hempen | hempen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 maid | amod |
| 12 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 married | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 swing | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 swing | cc |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 swing | advmod |
| 16 | swing | swing | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 swing | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fro | cc |
| 19 | fro | fro | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 swing | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | the tree | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | marry | present · perfect · passive | seven fellows | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | swing | infinitive | now | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | fro | infinitive | tree rules |
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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