Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 15
It certainly is a sin and a shame that they are not eaten at the right time!’
Who acts: smelt · What happens: be, not eat · To what, where: sin
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 (smelt), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sin | nsubj |
| 2 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 sin | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sin | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sin | det |
| 5 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shame | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 shame | det |
| 8 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sin | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 eaten | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 eaten | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 eaten | aux:pass |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 eaten | advmod |
| 13 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 shame | acl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 16 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eaten | obl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 shame | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 sin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | smelt | a sin and a shame | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not eat | present · passive | sin | time | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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