Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 22
And as the dwarf came to the brink of it, he saw the two ducks whose lives he had saved swimming about; and they dived down and soon brought in the key from the bottom.
Who acts: dwarf, ducks · What happens: come, see, save, swim, dive down, bring · To what, where: brink, two ducks, lives, key
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Queen Bee. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarf, ducks), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dwarf | det |
| 4 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 saw | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 brink | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 brink | det |
| 8 | brink | brink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 brink | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ducks | det |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 ducks | nummod |
| 16 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 saw | obj |
| 17 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 18 lives | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ducks | nmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saved | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 saved | aux |
| 21 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 lives | acl:relcl |
| 22 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 saved | advcl |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 swimming | advmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 dived | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 dived | cc |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 dived | nsubj |
| 27 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 saw | conj |
| 28 | down | down | ADV | _ | 27 dived | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 brought | cc |
| 30 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 brought | advmod |
| 31 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 dived | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 key | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 key | det |
| 34 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 brought | obl |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 bottom | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 bottom | det |
| 37 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 brought | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the dwarf | the brink of brink | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to brink=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | dwarf | the two ducks the two ducks the two ducks's lives's lives | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer duck=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | save | past · perfect | dwarf | the two ducks the two ducks lives's lives's lives not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 4 | swim | gerund | dwarf not said here | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | dive down | past | ducks = duck | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | bring | participle | ducks = duck not said here | the key | from the bottom; soon property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from bottom=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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