Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 29
As she entered the courtyard, the cock who was perched on the well, called out:
Who acts: gate · What happens: enter, perch, call out · To what, where: courtyard, cock, well
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 (gate), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 entered | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 courtyard | det |
| 5 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cock | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cock | det |
| 8 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 courtyard | appos |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 perched | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 perched | aux:pass |
| 11 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 cock | acl:relcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 well | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 well | det |
| 14 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 perched | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 well | acl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 called | compound:prt |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | gate | the courtyard | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme courtyard=Destination | ||||
| 2 | perch | past · passive | the cock | the well | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on well=Destination | ||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | participle | the well not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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