Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 77
In the evening she came to a cottage among the hills, and went in to rest, for her little feet would carry her no further.
Who acts: SNOWDROP, little feet · What happens: come, go in, rest, carry · To what, where: cottage, SNOWDROP
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 (SNOWDROP, little feet), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 cottage | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cottage | det |
| 8 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | among | among | ADP | _ | 11 hills | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hills | det |
| 11 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 rest | mark |
| 17 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 went | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 carry | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 carry | mark |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 feet | nmod:poss |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 feet | amod |
| 22 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 carry | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 carry | aux |
| 24 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 rest | advcl |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 carry | obj |
| 26 | no | no | ADV | _ | 27 further | advmod |
| 27 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 carry | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | SNOWDROP | a cottage | evening | among the hills | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cottage=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | go in | past | SNOWDROP not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | SNOWDROP not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | carry | would | SNOWDROP's little feet | SNOWDROP | far property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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