Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 100
For she had run as quickly as she could through the pigeon-house and on to the hazel-tree, and had there taken off her beautiful clothes, and put them beneath the tree, that the bird might carry them away, and had lain down again amid the ashes in her little grey frock.
Who acts: lamp, you, bird · What happens: run, take off, put, carry away, lie down · To what, where: beautiful clothes, clothes, tree, ashes
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lamp, you, bird), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 run | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 run | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | aux |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 put | advcl |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 quickly | advmod |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 run | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 could | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 could | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | advcl |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 12 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 house | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 pigeon | punct |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 could | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 on | cc |
| 16 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 could | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 tree | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tree | det |
| 19 | hazel | hazel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tree | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 hazel | punct |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 could | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 taken | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 taken | cc |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 taken | aux |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 taken | advmod |
| 26 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 run | conj |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 30 clothes | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 clothes | amod |
| 30 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 26 taken | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 put | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 put | cc |
| 33 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 put | obj |
| 35 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 37 tree | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 tree | det |
| 37 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 put | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 carry | punct |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 carry | mark |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 bird | det |
| 41 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 carry | nsubj |
| 42 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 carry | aux |
| 43 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 put | parataxis |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 carry | obj |
| 45 | away | away | ADV | _ | 43 carry | advmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 lain | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 lain | cc |
| 48 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 lain | aux |
| 49 | lain | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 carry | conj |
| 50 | down | down | ADP | _ | 49 lain | compound:prt |
| 51 | again | again | ADV | _ | 49 lain | advmod |
| 52 | amid | amid | ADP | _ | 54 ashes | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 ashes | det |
| 54 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 lain | obl |
| 55 | in | in | ADP | _ | 59 frock | case |
| 56 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 59 frock | nmod:poss |
| 57 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 frock | amod |
| 58 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 frock | amod |
| 59 | frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 ashes | nmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · perfect | lamp | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take off | past · perfect | lamp not said here | lamp's beautiful clothes | there | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | |||
| 3 | put | imperative | you not said here | clothes | the tree | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme beneath tree=Destination | |||
| 4 | carry away | might | the bird | clothes | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | lie down | past · perfect | the bird not said here | the ashes in lamp's little grey frock | again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent amid ash=Location |
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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