Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 7
On one side the finest flowers were in full bloom, and on the other everything looked dreary and buried in the snow.
Who acts: finest flowers · What happens: be, look, bury · To what, where: full bloom, snow
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 (finest flowers), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 side | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 side | nummod |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bloom | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flowers | det |
| 5 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 flowers | amod |
| 6 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bloom | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bloom | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bloom | case |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bloom | amod |
| 10 | bloom | bloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 everything | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 everything | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 everything | amod |
| 16 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 looked | obl |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bloom | parataxis |
| 18 | dreary | dreary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 looked | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 buried | cc |
| 20 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 looked | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 snow | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 snow | det |
| 23 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 buried | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 bloom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the finest flowers | full bloom | on one side | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | past | on everything; dreary property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on everything=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bury | participle | the snow | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in snow=Destination |
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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