Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 71
Frederick slipped down on the other side, and picked up some stones.
Who acts: Frederick · What happens: slip down, pick up · To what, where: other side, stones
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 (Frederick), 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 | Frederick | Frederick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 slipped | nsubj |
| 2 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 slipped | compound:prt |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 side | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 side | amod |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slipped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 picked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 picked | cc |
| 10 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 slipped | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 picked | compound:prt |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 stones | det |
| 13 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 picked | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip down | past | Frederick | the other side | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | pick up | participle | Frederick not said here | some stones | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic |
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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