Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 32
Then she went in to her mother and sister, and as she was so richly covered with gold, they gave her a warm welcome.
Who acts: gate, ’s · What happens: go in, cover, give · To what, where: gate, warm welcome
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, ’s), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 mother | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sister | cc |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mother | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gave | cc |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 covered | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 covered | aux:pass |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 covered | advmod |
| 16 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 17 covered | advmod |
| 17 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 gave | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 gold | case |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 covered | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 covered | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | nsubj |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | iobj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 welcome | det |
| 25 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 welcome | amod |
| 26 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | gate | then | to gate's mother and sister | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | cover | past · passive | gate | with gold; richly property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with gold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | ’s = ' | a warm welcome | gate | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient welcome=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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