Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 48
But as soon as the first rays of the sun shone into the garden he saw all the ten sacks standing side by side, quite full, and not a single grain was missing.
Who acts: youth, ten sacks, single grain · What happens: shine, see, stand, not be, ray · To what, where: sun, garden, ten sacks, side
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 (youth, ten sacks, single grain), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 rays | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 rays | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 rays | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rays | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 rays | amod |
| 7 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sun | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rays | nmod |
| 11 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sun | acl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 garden | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 garden | det |
| 14 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shone | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 garden | acl:relcl |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 sacks | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sacks | det |
| 19 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 sacks | nummod |
| 20 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 saw | obj |
| 21 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 sacks | acl |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 standing | obj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 standing | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 full | punct |
| 26 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 27 full | advmod |
| 27 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 standing | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 missing | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 missing | cc |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 missing | advmod |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 grain | det |
| 32 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 grain | amod |
| 33 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 missing | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 missing | cop |
| 35 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 full | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | participle | the sun not said here | the garden | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | youth | all ten sacks | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sack=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | all ten sacks not said here | side | by side | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent side=Theme by side=Destination | |||
| 4 | not is | past | a single grain | missing property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | ray | the sun | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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