Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 1
Long, long ago, some two thousand years or so, there lived a rich man with a good and beautiful wife.
What happens: live · To what, where: rich man
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 years | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 years | punct |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 ago | advmod |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 9 years | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 years | punct |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 years | det |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 thousand | compound |
| 8 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 so | cc |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 years | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 years | punct |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 lived | expl |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 wife | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 wife | det |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wife | amod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 beautiful | cc |
| 22 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 good | conj |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 man | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a rich man | there | year | with a good wife | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=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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