Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 32
Then the maiden changed herself into a beautiful flower which stood in the midst of a briar hedge, and her sweetheart Roland into a fiddler.
Who acts: maiden, beautiful flower · What happens: change, stand · To what, where: maiden, beautiful flower, midst
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 (maiden, beautiful flower), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 changed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maiden | det |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | nsubj |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 changed | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 flower | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 flower | det |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 flower | amod |
| 9 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 flower | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 midst | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 midst | det |
| 14 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 hedge | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hedge | det |
| 17 | briar | briar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hedge | compound |
| 18 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 midst | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sweetheart | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sweetheart | cc |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sweetheart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 23 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 sweetheart | appos |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 fiddler | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 fiddler | det |
| 26 | fiddler | fiddler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | the maiden | maiden | then | into a beautiful flower result; into a fiddler; maiden's sweetheart obl | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into flower=Result | ||
| 2 | stand | past | a beautiful flower | the midst of a briar hedge | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in midst=Location |
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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