Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 117
The eldest went first into the room where the slipper was, and wanted to try it on, and the mother stood by.
Who acts: eldest, mother · What happens: go, want, try on, stand by · To what, where: room
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 (eldest, mother), 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 | 2 eldest | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 was | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 slipper | det |
| 10 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 room | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wanted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wanted | cc |
| 14 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 try | mark |
| 16 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wanted | xcomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 try | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 try | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stood | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 stood | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mother | det |
| 22 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stood | nsubj |
| 23 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wanted | conj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 stood | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the eldest | the room | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | want | past | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | try on not said to happen | to-infinitive | room | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stand by | past | the mother | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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