Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 133
Round went the wheel again to the old song, and the manikin once more spun the heap into gold.
Who acts: manikin · What happens: go, spin · To what, where: wheel, heap, 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: who acts (manikin), 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 | Round | round | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wheel | det |
| 4 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 song | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 song | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 song | amod |
| 9 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spun | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spun | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 manikin | det |
| 13 | manikin | manikin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spun | nsubj |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 spun | advmod |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 spun | advmod |
| 16 | spun | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 heap | det |
| 18 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spun | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 gold | case |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spun | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the wheel | again | to the old song; round property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wheel=Theme | |||
| 2 | spin | past | the manikin | the heap | gold | once property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent heap=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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