Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 15
When the old witch got up next morning, she called her daughter, and wanted to give her the apron, but she did not come.
Who acts: old witch, witch · What happens: get up, call, want, give, not come · To what, where: daughter, apron, witch · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old witch, witch), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 witch | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 witch | amod |
| 4 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 called | advcl |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 7 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 morning | amod |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 called | nsubj |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wanted | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wanted | cc |
| 16 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 called | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 give | mark |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wanted | xcomp |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 apron | det |
| 21 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 come | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 come | cc |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 come | nsubj |
| 25 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 come | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 come | advmod |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 give | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the old witch | morning | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | call | past | witch | witch's daughter | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | want | past | witch not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | witch not said here | the apron | witch | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient apron=Theme | |||
| 5 | not come | past · do-support | witch | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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