Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 7
A month passed, and the snow had all disappeared; then another month went by, and all the earth was green.
Who acts: snow, month, earth · What happens: pass, have, go by, be
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 (snow, month, earth), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 month | det |
| 2 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 snow | det |
| 7 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 disappeared | advmod |
| 10 | disappeared | disappeared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 had | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 went | advmod |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 month | det |
| 14 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 green | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 green | cc |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 earth | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 earth | det |
| 21 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 green | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 green | cop |
| 23 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 went | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | month | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | the snow | disappeared property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go by | past | another month | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | all earth | green property | tree rules |
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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