Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 25
Her own child, whose head she had cut off, bathed in her blood.
What happens: cut off, bath · To what, where: own child, blood
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: 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 child | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 child | amod |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 head | punct |
| 5 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 child | appos |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cut | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cut | aux |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 cut | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bathed | punct |
| 12 | bathed | bath | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cut | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 blood | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 blood | nmod:poss |
| 15 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bathed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | past · perfect · passive | woman's own child | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | bath | participle | woman's blood | 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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