Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 103
At last, as she was dropping asleep, morning broke, and the sun rose.
Who acts: Dame, sun · What happens: drop, break, rise
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dame, sun), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 broke | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dropping | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 dropping | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dropping | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dropping | aux |
| 7 | dropping | drop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 last | conj |
| 8 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dropping | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 broke | punct |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broke | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rose | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rose | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sun | det |
| 15 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rose | nsubj |
| 16 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 broke | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past · progressive | Dame | asleep property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | break | past | morning | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | rise | past | the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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