Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, sentence 2
For a long time all went well; they lived in great comfort, and prospered so far as to be able to add considerably to their stores.
Who acts: mouse · What happens: go, live, prosper, be, add · To what, where: great comfort
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mouse), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 went | advmod |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 lived | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 comfort | case |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 comfort | amod |
| 13 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 prospered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 prospered | cc |
| 16 | prospered | prosper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lived | conj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 far | advmod |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 able | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 able | mark |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 able | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 able | cop |
| 22 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 prospered | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 add | mark |
| 24 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 able | xcomp |
| 25 | considerably | considerably | ADV | _ | 24 add | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 stores | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 stores | nmod:poss |
| 28 | stores | store | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 add | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | time | well property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | past | mouse | great comfort | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in comfort=Location | ||||
| 3 | prosper | past | mouse not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | mouse not said here | able, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | add speech: assert | to-infinitive | mouse not said here | to mouse's stores; considerably property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to store=Co-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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