Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 21
So she stayed on with Mother Holle for some time, and then she began to grow unhappy.
Who acts: woman · What happens: stay on, begin, grow
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 stayed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stayed | nsubj |
| 3 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 stayed | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 Mother | case |
| 6 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stayed | obl |
| 7 | Holle | Holle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mother | flat |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stayed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 began | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 began | nsubj |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stayed | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 grow | mark |
| 17 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 began | xcomp |
| 18 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 grow | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay on | past | woman | time | with Mother | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with mother=Location | |||
| 2 | begin | past | woman | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | grow | to-infinitive | woman not said here | unhappy property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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