Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 35
All went right, and the groom lay snoring with his hand upon the golden saddle.
Who acts: groom · What happens: go, lie, snore
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (groom), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 went | advmod |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lay | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lay | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 groom | det |
| 7 | groom | groom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | nsubj |
| 8 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 9 | snoring | snore | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 lay | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 snoring | obl |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 saddle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 saddle | det |
| 15 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 saddle | amod |
| 16 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 snoring | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | right property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lie | past | the groom | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | snore | gerund | the groom not said here | with groom's hand; upon the golden saddle | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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