Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker, sentence 15
This was long before daybreak; and then they bustled away as quick as lightning.
Who acts: This, shoes · What happens: be, bustle away
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Elves and the Shoemaker. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, shoes), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 daybreak | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 daybreak | cop |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 daybreak | amod |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 daybreak | case |
| 5 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 bustled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bustled | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 bustled | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bustled | nsubj |
| 10 | bustled | bustle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 daybreak | conj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 bustled | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 quick | advmod |
| 13 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bustled | xcomp |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 lightning | case |
| 15 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 quick | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 daybreak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | This | before long daybreak | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bustle away | past | shoes = shoe | then | away, quick property | vn run-51.3.2 «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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