Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 82

Now they were seven little dwarfs, that lived among the mountains, and dug and searched for gold.

Who acts: masters, seven little dwarfs · What happens: be, live, dig, search · To what, where: seven little dwarfs, mountains

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 (masters, seven little dwarfs), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 dwarfs	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dwarfs	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dwarfs	cop
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 dwarfs	nummod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dwarfs	amod
6	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lived	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lived	punct
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lived	nsubj
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	among	among	ADP	_	12 mountains	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mountains	det
12	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lived	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dug	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dug	cc
15	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lived	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 searched	cc
17	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 dug	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 gold	case
19	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 searched	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	masters = master	seven little dwarfs		now		tree rules
2	live	past	seven little dwarfs		the mountains			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among mountain=Location
3	dig	past	seven little dwarfs not said here					vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	search	past	seven little dwarfs not said here				for gold	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for gold=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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