Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 26
It is my husband!’ she quickly hid the roast meat inside the tiled stove, the wine under the pillow, the salad on the bed, the cakes under it, and the parson in the closet on the porch.
Who acts: knocking, woman · What happens: be, hide, tile · To what, where: husband, roast meat, tiled stove
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 (knocking, woman), 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 | 4 husband | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 husband | cop |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 husband | nmod:poss |
| 4 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 husband | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 husband | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hid | nsubj |
| 8 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 9 hid | advmod |
| 9 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 husband | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 meat | det |
| 11 | roast | roast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meat | compound |
| 12 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hid | obj |
| 13 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 16 stove | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stove | det |
| 15 | tiled | tile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 stove | amod |
| 16 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hid | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wine | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wine | det |
| 19 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stove | conj |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 pillow | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pillow | det |
| 22 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wine | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 salad | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 salad | det |
| 25 | salad | salad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stove | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 bed | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bed | det |
| 28 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 salad | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 cakes | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 cakes | det |
| 31 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stove | conj |
| 32 | under | under | ADP | _ | 33 it | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 cakes | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 parson | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 parson | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 parson | det |
| 37 | parson | parson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 husband | conj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 closet | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 closet | det |
| 40 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 parson | nmod |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 porch | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 porch | det |
| 43 | porch | porch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 closet | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 husband | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | knocking | my husband and the parson in the closet on the porch | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hide | past | woman | the roast meat | the tiled stove and the wine under the pillow and the salad on the bed and the cakes under knocking | quickly property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent meat=Patient inside stove=Location | ||
| 3 | tile | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
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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