Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 43
From that time forth, strange things happened in the shepherd’s house.
Who acts: strange things · What happens: happen · To what, where: house
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 (strange things), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happened | obl |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 time | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 6 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 happened | nsubj |
| 8 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shepherd | det |
| 11 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 house | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 shepherd | case |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happened | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | strange things | the shepherd's house | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in house=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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