Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 84
Two of her tears wetted his eyes and they grew clear again, and he could see with them as before.
Who acts: Two, eyes, son · What happens: wet, grow, see · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two, eyes, son), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2591:614): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 wetted | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 tears | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 tears | nmod:poss |
| 4 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Two | nmod |
| 5 | wetted | wet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wetted | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 grew | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 grew | nsubj |
| 10 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wetted | conj |
| 11 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grew | xcomp |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 grew | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 see | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wetted | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | obl |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 before | mark |
| 21 | before | before | ADV | _ | 17 see | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wetted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wet | past | Two of RAPUNZEL's tears | son's eyes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | eyes = eye | again | clear property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | could | son | with eyes = eye; before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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