Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 7
All day long she dared not go out of doors, and when bedtime had come, the witch’s daughter got into bed first, so as to lie at the far side, but when she was asleep, the other pushed her gently to the front, and took for herself the place at the back, close by the wall.
Who acts: woman, bedtime, daughter, other · What happens: not dare, not go out, come, get, lie, be · To what, where: doors, bed, far side, woman, front, place
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 (woman, bedtime, daughter, other), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dared | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 day | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dared | nsubj |
| 5 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 dared | advmod |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dared | xcomp |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 doors | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 doors | case |
| 10 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 come | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 come | advmod |
| 14 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 dared | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 got | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 witch | det |
| 19 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 witch | case |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 got | nsubj |
| 22 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dared | parataxis |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 bed | case |
| 24 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 got | obl |
| 25 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 got | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 lie | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 lie | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 lie | mark |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 lie | mark |
| 30 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 got | conj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 side | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 side | det |
| 33 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 side | amod |
| 34 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lie | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 pushed | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 pushed | cc |
| 37 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 40 asleep | mark |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 asleep | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 asleep | cop |
| 40 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 pushed | advcl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 asleep | punct |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 other | det |
| 43 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 pushed | nsubj |
| 44 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dared | conj |
| 45 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 pushed | obj |
| 46 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 44 pushed | advmod |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 front | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 front | det |
| 49 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 pushed | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 took | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 took | cc |
| 52 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dared | conj |
| 53 | for | for | ADP | _ | 54 herself | case |
| 54 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 52 took | obl |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 place | det |
| 56 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 took | obj |
| 57 | at | at | ADP | _ | 59 back | case |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 back | det |
| 59 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 place | nmod |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 close | punct |
| 61 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 took | advcl |
| 62 | by | by | ADP | _ | 64 wall | case |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 64 wall | det |
| 64 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 close | obl |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dare | past | woman | day | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not go out | infinitive | woman not said here | doors | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | bedtime | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get | past | the witch's daughter | bed | first property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into bed=Destination | |||
| 5 | lie | to-infinitive | the witch's daughter not said here | the far side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at side=Location | ||||
| 6 | is | past | woman | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | push | past | the other | woman | the front | gently property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme to front=Trajectory | ||
| 8 | take | past | woman not said here | the place | the back | for woman | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent place=Theme for herself=Beneficiary |
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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