Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 120
And round about the wheel went merrily; the work was quickly done, and the straw was all spun into gold.
What happens: go, do, spin · To what, where: work, straw, gold
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 2 | round | round | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 wheel | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wheel | det |
| 5 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 done | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 work | det |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 done | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 done | aux:pass |
| 12 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 13 done | advmod |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 went | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spun | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 spun | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 straw | det |
| 17 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spun | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 spun | aux:pass |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 spun | advmod |
| 20 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 done | parataxis |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 gold | case |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spun | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | about the wheel; merrily, round property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about wheel=Location | |||||
| 2 | do | past · passive | the work | quickly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | spin | past · passive | the straw | gold | all property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into gold=Trajectory |
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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