Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 70
They were in truth great rascals, and belonged to that class of people who find things before they are lost; they were tired; so they sat down and made a fire under the very tree where Frederick and Catherine were.
Who acts: nuts, truth great rascals, people · What happens: be, belong, find, lose, sit down, make · To what, where: truth great rascals, things, nuts, fire, tree
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 (nuts, truth great rascals, people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rascals | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rascals | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 rascals | case |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rascals | compound |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rascals | amod |
| 6 | rascals | rascal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 belonged | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 belonged | cc |
| 9 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rascals | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 class | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 class | det |
| 12 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 belonged | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 class | nmod |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 find | nsubj |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 people | acl:relcl |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 find | obj |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 lost | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lost | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 lost | aux:pass |
| 21 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 find | advcl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 tired | punct |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 tired | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 tired | cop |
| 25 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 belonged | advcl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 sat | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 sat | advmod |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sat | nsubj |
| 29 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rascals | parataxis |
| 30 | down | down | ADP | _ | 29 sat | compound:prt |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 made | cc |
| 32 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 sat | conj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 fire | det |
| 34 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 made | obj |
| 35 | under | under | ADP | _ | 38 tree | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 tree | det |
| 37 | very | very | ADV | _ | 38 tree | advmod |
| 38 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 made | ccomp |
| 39 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 43 were | advmod |
| 40 | Frederick | Frederick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 were | nsubj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 Catherine | cc |
| 42 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Frederick | conj |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 tree | cop |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rascals | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | nuts = nut | truth great rascals | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | belong | past | truth great rascals not said here | to that class of people | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | present | people | things | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 4 | lose | present · passive | nuts = nut | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | is | past | nuts = nut | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sit down | past | nuts = nut | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | make | past | nuts = nut not said here | a fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product | ||||
| 8 | is | past | nuts = nut not said here | the tree | 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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