Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 23
Then the woman served up four different things, roast meat, salad, cakes, and wine.
Who acts: woman, four different things · What happens: serve up, roast · To what, where: four different things, meat
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Peasant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, four different things), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 served | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 served | nsubj |
| 4 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 served | compound:prt |
| 6 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 things | nummod |
| 7 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 things | amod |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 served | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 roast | punct |
| 10 | roast | roast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 things | acl:relcl |
| 11 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roast | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 salad | punct |
| 13 | salad | salad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 meat | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cakes | punct |
| 15 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 meat | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wine | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wine | cc |
| 18 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 served | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve up | past | the woman | four different things | then | wine obl | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Attribute | ||
| 2 | roast | present | four different things not said here | meat and salad and cakes | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent meat=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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