Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, sentence 7
For, when the mouse had made the fire and fetched in the water, she could retire into her little room and rest until it was time to set the table.
Who acts: other two, fire · What happens: make, fetch, retire, rest, be, set · To what, where: mouse, water, little room, table
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 (other two, fire), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 7 made | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 made | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mouse | det |
| 5 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | aux |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 retire | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fetched | cc |
| 11 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fetched | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 retire | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 retire | aux |
| 18 | retire | retire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 room | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 room | nmod:poss |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 room | amod |
| 22 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 retire | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 rest | cc |
| 24 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 retire | conj |
| 25 | until | until | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 time | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 time | cop |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rest | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 set | mark |
| 30 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 time | acl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 table | det |
| 32 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 set | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 retire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect · passive | the mouse | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary fire=Product | |||||
| 2 | fetch | past | the water | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | retire | could | other two = two | other two's little room | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | rest | infinitive | other two = two not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | fire | until time | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | set | to-infinitive | other two = two not said here | the table | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient table=Result |
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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