Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 72

When they were half-way across Lily let the nut fall into the water, and immediately a large nut-tree arose from the sea, whereon the griffin rested for a while, and then carried them safely home.

Who acts: woes, nut, large nut tree, griffin · What happens: be, let, fall, arise, rest, carry · To what, where: way, Lily, water, sea, woes

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 (woes, nut, large nut tree, griffin), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 way	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 way	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
4	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 way	advmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 half	punct
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 let	obl:unmarked
7	across	across	ADP	_	8 Lily	case
8	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 let	obl
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 nut	det
11	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fall	nsubj
12	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 water	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 water	det
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fall	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 arose	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 arose	cc
18	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	24 arose	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 tree	det
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tree	amod
21	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tree	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 nut	punct
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 arose	nsubj
24	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 let	conj
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 sea	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sea	det
27	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 arose	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 rested	punct
29	whereon	whereon	ADV	PronType=Int	32 rested	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 griffin	det
31	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 rested	nsubj
32	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 arose	conj
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 while	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 while	det
35	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 rested	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 carried	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 carried	cc
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 carried	advmod
39	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 let	conj
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 carried	obj
41	safely	safely	ADV	_	39 carried	advmod
42	home	home	ADV	_	39 carried	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	woes = woe	way			half property	tree rules
2	let	past			Lily			tree rules
3	fall	infinitive	the nut				into the water result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result
4	arise	past	a large nut tree		the sea		immediately property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	rest	past	the griffin			while	whereon property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	carry	past		woes = woe		then	home, safely property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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