Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 8
The bear, however, could not rest until he had seen the royal palace, and when a short time had passed, went to it again.
Who acts: bear, lord, short time · What happens: not rest, see, pass, go · To what, where: royal palace, palace
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, lord, short time), 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 bear | det |
| 2 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rest | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 bear | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 rest | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 rest | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 rest | advmod |
| 8 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 seen | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seen | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | aux |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 rest | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 14 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 palace | amod |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seen | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 passed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 passed | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 passed | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 20 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 time | amod |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 passed | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 passed | aux |
| 23 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 rest | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 passed | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 went | obl |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 went | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not rest | could | the bear | however property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | lord | the royal palace | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | pass | past · perfect | a short time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | past | a short time not said here | palace | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location |
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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