Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 10
Here she was to stay for seven years without meat or drink, and die of hunger.
Who acts: wife · What happens: be, die
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stay | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stay | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 stay | mark |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 7 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stay | obl |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 10 meat | case |
| 10 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stay | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 drink | cc |
| 12 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 meat | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 die | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 die | cc |
| 15 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stay | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hunger | case |
| 17 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 die | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wife | here | year | without meat or drink; stay property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | die | infinitive | wife not said here | of hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer |
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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