Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 22
Meantime he worked and worked away, till he made a hole large enough to put out his head.
Who acts: Meantime · What happens: work, work away, make, put out · To what, where: hole, head
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Meantime), 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 | Meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 worked | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 worked | nsubj |
| 3 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 worked | cc |
| 5 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 worked | conj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 worked | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 made | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 worked | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hole | det |
| 12 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 made | xcomp |
| 14 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 13 large | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 put | mark |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 large | advcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 put | compound:prt |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past | Meantime | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | work away | past | Meantime not said here | away property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Meantime | a hole | large property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Product | |||
| 4 | put out | to-infinitive | Meantime not said here | Meantime's head | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal |
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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