Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 6
It happened once when the child was a little older, that it was lying in her arms and she fell asleep.
Who acts: It, child, garden, angel · What happens: happen, be, lie, fall · To what, where: arms
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 (It, child, garden, angel), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 happened | advmod |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 older | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 older | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 older | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 little | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 older | obl |
| 10 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 happened | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lying | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 lying | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lying | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lying | aux |
| 15 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 happened | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 arms | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 arms | nmod:poss |
| 18 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lying | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fell | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fell | nsubj |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | conj |
| 22 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fell | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | once property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the child | a little obl; old property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lie | past · progressive | garden | angel's arms | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in arm=Location | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | angel | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «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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