Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 78
However, he went with her into the cow-house, to try and see what was the matter.
Who acts: parson · What happens: go, try, see, be · To what, where: cow house, matter · 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 (parson), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | obl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 9 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 cow | punct |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 try | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 try | mark |
| 14 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 see | cc |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 try | conj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 matter | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 matter | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 matter | det |
| 20 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | parson | the cow house | with woman; however property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | try | to-infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | the matter | tree rules |
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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