Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 76
Then Ashputtel brought the dish to her mother, overjoyed at the thought that now she should go to the ball.
Who acts: Ashputtel, thought · What happens: bring, overjoy, go · To what, where: dish, mother, thought, ball
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 (Ashputtel, thought), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 brought | advmod |
| 2 | Ashputtel | Ashputtel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dish | det |
| 5 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 mother | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 overjoyed | punct |
| 10 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 mother | acl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 thought | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thought | det |
| 13 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 overjoyed | obl |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 go | nsubj |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 go | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 go | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 go | aux |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thought | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 ball | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ball | det |
| 21 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | Ashputtel | the dish | ASHPUTTEL's mother | then | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dish=Theme to mother=Destination | ||
| 2 | overjoy | participle | ASHPUTTEL's mother not said here | the thought | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | should | the thought | the ball | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ball=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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