Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 88
Before half an hour’s time all was done, and out they flew again.
Who acts: doves · What happens: do, fly · To what, where: all
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 (doves), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 2 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 4 hour | det:predet |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hour | det |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 hour | case |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 done | obl |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 done | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 done | aux:pass |
| 9 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 flew | cc |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 flew | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 flew | nsubj |
| 14 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 done | parataxis |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 flew | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | all | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | doves = dove | again | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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