Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 135
At the birth of her first little child she was very glad, and forgot the dwarf, and what she had said.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: be, forget, say · To what, where: birth, dwarf · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (daughter), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 birth | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 birth | det |
| 3 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 glad | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 child | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 child | nmod:poss |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 child | amod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 child | amod |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 birth | nmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 glad | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 glad | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 glad | advmod |
| 12 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 forgot | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 forgot | cc |
| 15 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 glad | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dwarf | det |
| 17 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 forgot | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 said | obj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | aux |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 forgot | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | daughter | the birth of daughter's first little child | glad property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | forget | past | the dwarf | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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