Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 35
Like her sister she awoke in the beautiful meadow, and walked over it till she came to the oven.
Who acts: gate · What happens: awake, walk, come · To what, where: beautiful meadow, meadow, oven
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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 sister | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 awoke | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 awoke | nsubj |
| 5 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 meadow | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 meadow | det |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 meadow | amod |
| 9 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 awoke | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 walked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 walked | cc |
| 12 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awoke | conj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 walked | obl |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 came | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 walked | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 oven | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 oven | det |
| 20 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | gate | the beautiful meadow | like gate's sister | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meadow=Location | |||
| 2 | walk | past | gate not said here | meadow | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | come | past | gate | the oven | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to oven=Initial_Location |
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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