Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 7
So they took stock of the hole where the nest lay, and trotted away.
Who acts: bear, nest · What happens: take, lie, trot away, stock · To what, where: stock, hole
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 (bear, nest), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hole | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hole | det |
| 7 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stock | nmod |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 lay | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 nest | det |
| 10 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | nsubj |
| 11 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hole | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 trotted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 trotted | cc |
| 14 | trotted | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 trotted | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | bear | stock of the hole | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stock=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | the nest | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | trot away | past | bear not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stock | the hole | nom stock «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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