Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 6
So on they went, and came to a lake where many many ducks were swimming about.
Who acts: things, many many ducks · What happens: go, come, swim · To what, where: lake
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 (things, many many 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 4 went | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 lake | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lake | det |
| 10 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 swimming | advmod |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ducks | amod |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ducks | amod |
| 14 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 swimming | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 swimming | aux |
| 16 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 lake | acl |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 swimming | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | things = thing | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | things = thing not said here | a lake | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | swim | past · progressive | many many ducks | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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