Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 14
So she turned round; and as she had run a good way and was tired, she walked home leisurely to cool herself.
Who acts: Catherine · What happens: turn, run, be, walk, cool · To what, where: good way, Catherine
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catherine), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 turned | xcomp |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 run | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 run | cc |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 run | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 run | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 run | aux |
| 10 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 turned | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 way | amod |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 run | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tired | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 tired | cop |
| 16 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 run | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 walked | punct |
| 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 | 3 turned | conj |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 walked | advmod |
| 21 | leisurely | leisurely | ADV | _ | 19 walked | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 cool | mark |
| 23 | cool | cool | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 walked | advcl |
| 24 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 cool | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Catherine | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | past · perfect | Catherine | a good way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Catherine not said here | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | walk | past | Catherine | home, leisurely property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cool | to-infinitive | Catherine not said here | Catherine | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herself=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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