Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 19
The whole district was in sorrow and dismay because of them, and yet no one could do anything to stop this.
Who acts: whole district, one · What happens: be, do, stop · To what, where: sorrow, anything, this
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Languages. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole district, one), 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 | 3 district | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 district | amod |
| 3 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sorrow | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sorrow | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sorrow | case |
| 6 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dismay | cc |
| 8 | dismay | dismay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sorrow | conj |
| 9 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 11 them | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 because | fixed |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dismay | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 do | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 do | cc |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 18 do | advmod |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | aux |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sorrow | parataxis |
| 19 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 do | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 stop | mark |
| 21 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 anything | acl |
| 22 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 stop | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sorrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the whole district | sorrow and dismay because sorrow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | could | no one | anything | yet | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | stop | to-infinitive | no one not said here | this | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality this=Eventuality |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/41/19/