Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 110
And when they came back into the kitchen, there lay Ashputtel among the ashes; for she had slipped down on the other side of the tree, and carried her beautiful clothes back to the bird at the hazel-tree, and then put on her little grey frock.
Who acts: sisters, ASHPUTTEL · What happens: come back, lie, slip down, carry, put · To what, where: kitchen, Ashputtel, other side, beautiful clothes, bird, hazel tree
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lay | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lay | advcl |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 kitchen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 kitchen | det |
| 8 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 lay | expl |
| 11 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Ashputtel | Ashputtel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | obj |
| 13 | among | among | ADP | _ | 15 ashes | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ashes | det |
| 15 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lay | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 slipped | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 slipped | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 slipped | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 slipped | aux |
| 20 | slipped | slip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 lay | parataxis |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 slipped | compound:prt |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 side | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 side | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 side | amod |
| 25 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 slipped | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 tree | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tree | det |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 side | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 carried | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 carried | cc |
| 31 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 slipped | parataxis |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 33 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 clothes | amod |
| 34 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 31 carried | obj |
| 35 | back | back | ADV | _ | 31 carried | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 bird | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 bird | det |
| 38 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 carried | obl |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 43 tree | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 tree | det |
| 41 | hazel | hazel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 tree | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 hazel | punct |
| 43 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 carried | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 put | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 put | cc |
| 46 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 47 put | advmod |
| 47 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 carried | conj |
| 48 | on | on | ADP | _ | 52 frock | case |
| 49 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 frock | nmod:poss |
| 50 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 frock | amod |
| 51 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 frock | amod |
| 52 | frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 put | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | sisters = sister | the kitchen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | Ashputtel | there | among the ashes | tree rules | |||
| 3 | slip down | past · perfect | ASHPUTTEL | the other side of the tree | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | carry | past | ASHPUTTEL's beautiful clothes | the bird | the hazel tree | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme to bird=Destination | |||
| 5 | put | infinitive | ASHPUTTEL's little grey frock | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on frock=Destination |
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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