Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 10
Eating the snake had given him power of understanding the language of animals.
Who acts: power · What happens: eat, give, understand · To what, where: power, snake, language
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power), 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 | Eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snake | det |
| 3 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 given | iobj |
| 7 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obj |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 understanding | mark |
| 9 | understanding | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 power | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 language | det |
| 11 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 understanding | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 animals | case |
| 13 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 language | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | gerund | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | give | past · perfect · passive | power | snake | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | understand | gerund | power not said here | the language of animals | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus |
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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