Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 21
And as she leaned down to drink, the lock of hair fell from her bosom, and floated away with the water.
Who acts: mother, lock · What happens: learn down, drink, fall, float away, bosom · To what, where: bosom
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, lock), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 leaned | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 leaned | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leaned | nsubj |
| 4 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 leaned | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 drink | mark |
| 7 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 leaned | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lock | det |
| 10 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hair | case |
| 12 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lock | nmod |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leaned | parataxis |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 bosom | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 floated | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 floated | cc |
| 19 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fell | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 floated | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 water | det |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 floated | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn down | past | mother | down property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | drink | to-infinitive | mother not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | the lock of hair | mother's bosom | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bosom=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | float away | past | the lock of hair not said here | with the water; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bosom | mother | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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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