Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 6
The girl went back to the well not knowing what to do, and at last in her distress she jumped into the water after the spindle.
Who acts: girl, well, last · What happens: go back, not know, do, jump, distress · To what, where: water
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, well, last), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 well | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 well | det |
| 7 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 knowing | advmod |
| 9 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 well | acl |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 do | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 knowing | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 jumped | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 jumped | cc |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 jumped | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 distress | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 distress | nmod:poss |
| 19 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 last | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 jumped | nsubj |
| 21 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 jumped | obl |
| 25 | after | after | ADP | _ | 27 spindle | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 spindle | det |
| 27 | spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 jumped | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | the girl | to the well result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to well=Result | ||||
| 2 | not know | gerund | the well not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | the well not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | jump | past | last | after the spindle | into the water result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into water=Result | |||
| 5 | distress | girl | nom distress «feeling transitive»: poss=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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