Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 61
He thought it so beautiful that he got up and ran out, and as he crossed the threshold he lost one of his slippers.
Who acts: goldsmith · What happens: think, get up, run out, cross, lose · To what, where: song, threshold, one
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: who acts (goldsmith), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | obj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 beautiful | advmod |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thought | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 got | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beautiful | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 got | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ran | cc |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 ran | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lost | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lost | cc |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 crossed | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 crossed | nsubj |
| 17 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lost | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 threshold | det |
| 19 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crossed | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lost | nsubj |
| 21 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | conj |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 lost | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 slippers | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 slippers | nmod:poss |
| 25 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 one | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | goldsmith | song | beautiful property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||
| 2 | get up | past | goldsmith | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | run out | past | goldsmith not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cross | past | goldsmith | the threshold | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent threshold=Patient | ||||
| 5 | lose | past | goldsmith | one of goldsmith's slippers | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality |
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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