Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 11
When Sunday came, and it was time for the girl to start, a feeling of dread came over her which she could not explain, and that she might be able to find her path again, she filled her pockets with peas and lentils to sprinkle on the ground as she went along.
Who acts: Sunday, way, feeling · What happens: come, be, start, not explain, find, fill · To what, where: time, path, pockets, ground · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sunday, way, feeling), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 came | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 time | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 time | cc |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 time | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 time | cop |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 girl | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 start | mark |
| 13 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 time | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 feeling | det |
| 16 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 dread | case |
| 18 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feeling | nmod |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 which | nmod:poss |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 explain | obl |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 explain | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 explain | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 explain | advmod |
| 26 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 came | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 able | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 able | cc |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 able | mark |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 able | nsubj |
| 31 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 able | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 able | cop |
| 33 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 explain | ccomp |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 find | mark |
| 35 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 able | xcomp |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 path | nmod:poss |
| 37 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 find | obj |
| 38 | again | again | ADV | _ | 35 find | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 filled | punct |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 filled | nsubj |
| 41 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 came | conj |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 43 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 filled | obj | |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 peas | case |
| 45 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 filled | obl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 lentils | cc |
| 47 | lentils | lentil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 peas | conj |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 sprinkle | mark |
| 49 | sprinkle | sprinkle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 filled | advcl |
| 50 | on | on | ADP | _ | 52 ground | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 ground | det |
| 52 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 sprinkle | obl |
| 53 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 55 went | mark |
| 54 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 went | nsubj |
| 55 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 sprinkle | advcl |
| 56 | along | along | ADV | _ | 55 went | advmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Sunday | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | way | time | for the girl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | start | to-infinitive | Sunday not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | come | past | a feeling of dread | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not explain speech: assert | could | feeling | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | might | feeling | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | find | to-infinitive | feeling not said here | feeling's path | again | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Topic | |||
| 8 | fill | past | feeling | feeling's pockets | with peas and lentils | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient with pea=Instrument | |||
| 9 | sprinkle | to-infinitive | feeling not said here | the ground | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on ground=Destination | ||||
| 10 | go along | past | feeling | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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