Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 102
They disputed about it for a time, but as they were weary they let the matter rest, and their eyes closed once more.
Who acts: branches, eyes · What happens: dispute, be, let, close · To what, where: matter rest
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (branches, eyes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 disputed | nsubj |
| 2 | disputed | dispute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 disputed | obl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 disputed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 let | cc |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 weary | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 weary | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 weary | cop |
| 13 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 let | advcl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 let | nsubj |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 disputed | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rest | det |
| 17 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rest | compound |
| 18 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 let | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 closed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 closed | cc |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 closed | nsubj |
| 23 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 let | xcomp |
| 24 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 25 more | advmod |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 closed | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 disputed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dispute | past | branches = branch | time | about first | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about it=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | branches = branch | weary property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let | past | branches = branch | the matter rest | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | close | participle | branches's eyes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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