Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 21
The gnat, who was the most crafty, flew into the forest where the enemy was assembled, and hid herself beneath a leaf of the tree where the password was to be announced.
Who acts: gnat · What happens: be, fly, assemble, hide, announce · To what, where: forest, enemy, leaf, password
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Willow-wren and the Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gnat), 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 gnat | det |
| 2 | gnat | gnat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 crafty | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 crafty | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 crafty | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 crafty | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 crafty | advmod |
| 8 | crafty | crafty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gnat | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 gnat | punct |
| 10 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flew | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 assembled | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 enemy | det |
| 16 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 assembled | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 assembled | aux:pass |
| 18 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 forest | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hid | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hid | cc |
| 21 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 flew | conj |
| 22 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 hid | obj |
| 23 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 25 leaf | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 leaf | det |
| 25 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hid | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 tree | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tree | det |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 leaf | nmod |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 announced | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 password | det |
| 31 | password | password | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 announced | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 announced | aux:pass |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 announced | mark |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 announced | aux:pass |
| 35 | announced | announce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 tree | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the gnat | crafty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | the gnat | into the forest result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into forest=Result | ||||
| 3 | assemble | past · passive | the enemy | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hide | past | the gnat not said here | enemy | a leaf of the tree | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient beneath leaf=Location | |||
| 5 | announce speech: other | past · passive | the gnat not said here | the password | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «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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