Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 22
By day he and all his court were lions, but in the evening they took their right forms again.
Who acts: father, people · What happens: be, take, form · To what, where: lions, right forms
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, people), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 day | case |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lions | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lions | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 court | cc |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 court | det:predet |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 court | nmod:poss |
| 7 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 he | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lions | cop |
| 9 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 evening | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 evening | det |
| 14 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lions | conj |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 forms | nmod:poss |
| 18 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 forms | amod |
| 19 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 took | obj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 took | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lions | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | father | lions | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | past | people | people's right forms | again; evening | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | |||
| 3 | form | people | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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