Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 65
Those fellows up there have not opened their mouths, and were so stupid that they let the old rags on their bodies be burnt."
Who acts: mouths, old rags · What happens: not open, be, let, burnt · To what, where: fellows, old rags, bodies
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 (mouths, old rags), 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 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 fellows | det |
| 2 | fellows | fellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 there | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 fellows | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 opened | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 opened | advmod |
| 7 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 opened | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stupid | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stupid | cc |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stupid | cop |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 stupid | advmod |
| 14 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 opened | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 let | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 let | nsubj |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stupid | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rags | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 rags | amod |
| 20 | rags | rag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 let | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 bodies | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 23 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 let | obl |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 burnt | aux:pass |
| 25 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 let | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 opened | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not open | present · perfect · passive | that fellows | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme mouth=Destination | |||||
| 2 | is | past | stupid property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | let | past | mouths = mouth | the old rags | mouths's bodies | tree rules | |||
| 4 | burnt | infinitive · passive | the old rags not said here | 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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