Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 54
But he heard a rustling in the branches, and a golden apple fell into his hand.
Who acts: youth, golden apple · What happens: hear, fall · To what, where: rustling, branches, hand
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, golden apple), 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 | _ | 3 heard | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rustling | det |
| 5 | rustling | rustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 branches | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 branches | det |
| 8 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heard | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fell | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fell | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 apple | det |
| 12 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 apple | amod |
| 13 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fell | nsubj |
| 14 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fell | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | youth | a rustling | the branches | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rustling=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | fall | past | a golden apple | into youth's hand result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result |
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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