Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 101
The next day when the feast was again held, and her father, mother, and sisters were gone, Ashputtel went to the hazel-tree, and said:
Who acts: sisters, Ashputtel · What happens: hold, be, go, say · To what, where: feast, hazel tree · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sisters, Ashputtel), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 held | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 held | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 feast | det |
| 6 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 held | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 held | aux:pass |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 held | advmod |
| 9 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 father | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 father | cc |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 held | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mother | punct |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 father | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gone | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gone | cc |
| 18 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 gone | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 gone | cop |
| 20 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 held | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 22 | Ashputtel | Ashputtel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 went | nsubj |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 gone | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 tree | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tree | det |
| 26 | hazel | hazel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tree | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 hazel | punct |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 went | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 said | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 said | cc |
| 31 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past · passive | the feast | again; day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | sisters | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Ashputtel | the hazel tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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