Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 79
As she was very hungry, she picked a little piece of each loaf and drank a very little wine out of each glass; and after that she thought she would lie down and rest.
Who acts: SNOWDROP · What happens: be, pick, drink, think, lie down, rest · To what, where: little piece, little wine, glass · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 hungry | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hungry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hungry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 hungry | advmod |
| 5 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 picked | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hungry | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 picked | nsubj |
| 8 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 piece | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 piece | amod |
| 11 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 picked | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 loaf | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 loaf | det |
| 14 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 piece | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drank | cc |
| 16 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 picked | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wine | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 little | advmod |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wine | amod |
| 20 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drank | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 glass | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 glass | case |
| 23 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 glass | det |
| 24 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drank | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 thought | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 thought | cc |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 that | case |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 thought | obl |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 thought | nsubj |
| 30 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 picked | conj |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 lie | nsubj |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 lie | aux |
| 33 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 thought | ccomp |
| 34 | down | down | ADV | _ | 33 lie | advmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 rest | cc |
| 36 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 lie | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | SNOWDROP | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pick | past | SNOWDROP | a little piece of each loaf | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient | ||||
| 3 | drink | past | SNOWDROP not said here | a little wine | each glass | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | SNOWDROP | after that | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lie down | would | SNOWDROP | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | rest | infinitive | SNOWDROP not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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