Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 107
By the side of a wood, in a country a long way off, ran a fine stream of water; and upon the stream there stood a mill.
What happens: run, stand · To what, where: fine stream, mill, stream
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 side | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 side | det |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 wood | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wood | det |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 side | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 country | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 country | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 country | det |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wood | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 way | amod |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 off | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | off | off | ADV | _ | 10 country | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 side | punct |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 stream | det |
| 18 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stream | amod |
| 19 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 water | case |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stream | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 stood | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 stood | cc |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 stream | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 stream | det |
| 26 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stood | obl |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 stood | advmod |
| 28 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ran | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 mill | det |
| 30 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stood | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | a fine stream of water | by the side of a wood and a country | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent stream=Theme by side=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | a mill | the stream; there | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mill=Theme upon stream=Destination |
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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