Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 27
The howling of the wild dogs was henceforth heard no more; they had disappeared, and the country was freed from the trouble.
Who acts: dogs, wild dogs · What happens: hear, disappear, free, howl · To what, where: howling, country, trouble
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 (dogs, wild dogs), 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 howling | det |
| 2 | howling | howling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 dogs | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dogs | det |
| 5 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dogs | compound |
| 6 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 howling | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | aux:pass |
| 8 | henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 9 heard | advmod |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | no | no | ADV | _ | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 heard | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 disappeared | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 disappeared | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 disappeared | aux |
| 15 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 heard | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 freed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 freed | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 freed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 freed | aux:pass |
| 21 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 heard | conj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 trouble | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 trouble | det |
| 24 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 freed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | the howling of the wild dogs | henceforth property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | disappear | past · perfect | dogs = dog | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | free | past · passive | the country | the trouble | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source | ||||
| 4 | howl | the wild dogs | nom howling «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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