Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 28
The gate was then closed, and the girl found herself back in the old world close to her mother’s house.
Who acts: girl · What happens: close, find back · To what, where: gate, girl, old world
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 (girl), 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 gate | det |
| 2 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 closed | aux:pass |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 closed | advmod |
| 5 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 closed | parataxis |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 found | obj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 found | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 world | amod |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obl |
| 17 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 world | amod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mother | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 house | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 mother | case |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 close | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | past · passive | the gate | then | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | find back | past | the girl | girl | the old world | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic |
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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