Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 1
There was once an old castle, that stood in the middle of a deep gloomy wood, and in the castle lived an old fairy.
Who acts: old castle · What happens: be, stand, live · To what, where: middle, old fairy, castle
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Jorinda and Jorindel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old castle), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 castle | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 castle | amod |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 castle | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 middle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 middle | det |
| 12 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 wood | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wood | det |
| 15 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wood | amod |
| 16 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wood | amod |
| 17 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 middle | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lived | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lived | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 castle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 castle | det |
| 22 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lived | obl |
| 23 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stood | conj |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 fairy | det |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fairy | amod |
| 26 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lived | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a old castle | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | past | a old castle | the middle of a deep gloomy wood | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location | ||||
| 3 | live | past | a old castle not said here | a old fairy | the castle | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme fairy=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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