Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 48
The shepherd did as she bade him, and next morning just as day dawned, he saw the chest open, and the flower come out.
Who acts: shepherd, woman, flower · What happens: do, bade, dawn, see, come out · To what, where: shepherd, day, chest
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 (shepherd, woman, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shepherd | det |
| 2 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 bade | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bade | nsubj |
| 6 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bade | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 morning | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 morning | cc |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 morning | amod |
| 11 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 day | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 day | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 chest | det |
| 20 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obj |
| 21 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 saw | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 come | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 come | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 flower | det |
| 25 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 come | nsubj |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 saw | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADV | _ | 26 come | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the shepherd | day; morning | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bade | past | woman | shepherd | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dawn | participle | day not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | past | shepherd | the chest | open property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chest=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | come out | present | the flower | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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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