Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 15
The moon shone brightly, and the white pebbles which lay in front of the house glittered like real silver pennies.
Who acts: moon, white pebbles · What happens: shine, lay, glitter · To what, where: white pebbles, front, house
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, white pebbles), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moon | det |
| 2 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shone | nsubj |
| 3 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 3 shone | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pebbles | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pebbles | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pebbles | det |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pebbles | amod |
| 9 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shone | obl |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lay | nsubj |
| 11 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pebbles | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 front | case |
| 13 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 front | nmod |
| 17 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 house | acl |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 pennies | case |
| 19 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pennies | amod |
| 20 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pennies | amod |
| 21 | pennies | penny | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 glittered | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | the moon | the white pebbles | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | lay | present | the white pebbles | front of the house | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in front=Destination | ||||
| 3 | glitter | participle | the house not said here | like real silver pennies | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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