Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 80
The wife went in and fetched the shoes.
Who acts: wife · What happens: go in, fetch · To what, where: shoes
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 (wife), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wife | det |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fetched | cc |
| 6 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shoes | det |
| 8 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fetched | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | the wife | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fetch | past | the wife not said here | the shoes | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=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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