Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 120
So the silly girl cut off her great toe, and thus squeezed on the shoe, and went to the king’s son.
What happens: cut off, squeeze, go · To what, where: silly girl
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: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 cut | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 3 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girl | amod |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 toe | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 toe | nmod:poss |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 toe | amod |
| 9 | toe | toe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cut | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 squeezed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 squeezed | cc |
| 12 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 13 squeezed | advmod |
| 13 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cut | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 shoe | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shoe | det |
| 16 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 squeezed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cut | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 son | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 king | case |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | participle · passive | the silly girl | off girl's great toe | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | squeeze | participle | on the shoe; thus property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on shoe=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | to the king's son | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to son=Initial_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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