Grimms' Fairy Tales, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts, sentence 3
So they went to the mountains; and as it was a lovely day, they stayed there till the evening.
Who acts: nuts, holiday · What happens: go, be, stay · To what, where: mountains, lovely day
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nuts, holiday), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 mountains | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mountains | det |
| 6 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stayed | cc |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 day | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 day | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 day | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 13 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 day | amod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stayed | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 day | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stayed | nsubj |
| 17 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 stayed | advmod |
| 19 | till | till | ADP | _ | 21 evening | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 evening | det |
| 21 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stayed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | nuts = nut | the mountains | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | holiday | a lovely day | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stay | past | nuts = nut | there | evening | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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