Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 5
There were seven hundred of these cages hanging in the castle, and all with beautiful birds in them.
Who acts: seven hundred, cages · What happens: be, hang · To what, where: 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 (seven hundred, cages), 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 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hundred | compound |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cages | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 cages | det |
| 7 | cages | cage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hundred | nmod |
| 8 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 cages | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 castle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hanging | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 all | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 all | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 were | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 birds | case |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 birds | amod |
| 17 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 all | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 birds | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | seven hundred of this cages | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hang | gerund | this cages not said here | the castle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in castle=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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