Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 1
There was once a cook named Gretel, who wore shoes with red heels, and when she walked out with them on, she turned herself this way and that, was quite happy and thought: ‘You certainly are a pretty girl!’
Who acts: cook, Gretel, that, You · What happens: be, name, wear, walk out, turn, think · To what, where: cook, shoes, pretty girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook, Gretel, that, You), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cook | det |
| 5 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cook | acl |
| 7 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 named | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wore | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 wore | nsubj |
| 10 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Gretel | acl:relcl |
| 11 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wore | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 heels | case |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 heels | amod |
| 14 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wore | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 turned | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 turned | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 walked | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 walked | nsubj |
| 19 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 turned | advcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 walked | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 walked | obl |
| 23 | on | on | ADV | _ | 19 walked | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 walked | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 turned | nsubj |
| 26 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 27 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 turned | obj |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 way | det |
| 29 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 turned | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 happy | cc |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 happy | nsubj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 that | punct |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 happy | cop |
| 34 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 35 happy | advmod |
| 35 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 way | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 thought | cc |
| 37 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 turned | conj |
| 38 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 thought | punct |
| 39 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 girl | punct |
| 40 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 girl | nsubj |
| 41 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 45 girl | advmod |
| 42 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 girl | cop |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 girl | det |
| 44 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 girl | amod |
| 45 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 thought | ccomp |
| 46 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 45 girl | punct |
| 47 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 girl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a cook | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | name | participle | a cook not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wear | past | Gretel | shoes | with red heels | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | |||
| 4 | walk out | past | cook | with heels = heel; out property | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | turn | past | cook | cook | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent herself=Theme way=Result | ||||
| 6 | is | past | that | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | think speech: other | past | cook not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is a | present | You | a pretty girl | certainly property | 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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