Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 62
She lived three days more, and then died happily, and when she was buried, the two white doves which had brought her food to the tower, and were angels of heaven, followed her body and seated themselves on her grave.
Who acts: dog · What happens: live, die, bury, bring, be, follow · To what, where: more, dog, two white doves, angels, body, doves
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 (dog), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 more | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 lived | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 died | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 died | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 died | advmod |
| 9 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lived | conj |
| 10 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 9 died | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 buried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 buried | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 buried | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 buried | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 buried | aux:pass |
| 16 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lived | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 doves | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 doves | det |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 doves | nummod |
| 20 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 doves | amod |
| 21 | doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 buried | obl |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 brought | aux |
| 24 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 doves | acl:relcl |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 food | nmod:poss |
| 26 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 brought | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 tower | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 tower | det |
| 29 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 brought | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 angels | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 angels | cc |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 angels | cop |
| 33 | angels | angel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 buried | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 heaven | case |
| 35 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 angels | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 followed | punct |
| 37 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lived | conj |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 body | nmod:poss |
| 39 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 followed | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 seated | cc |
| 41 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lived | conj |
| 42 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 41 seated | obj |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 grave | case |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 grave | nmod:poss |
| 45 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 seated | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | dog | more | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme more=Location | ||||
| 2 | die | past | dog not said here | then | happily property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | bury | past · passive | dog | the two white doves obl | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the two white doves | to the tower | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination food=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | angels | of heaven | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | follow | past | dog not said here | dog's body | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme | ||||
| 7 | seat | past | dog not said here | doves = dove | dog's grave | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Value |
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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