Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 57
At night when the sleeping princess was again carried through the streets, some peas certainly did fall out of her pocket, but they made no track, for the crafty manikin had just before scattered peas in every street there was.
Who acts: peas, crafty manikin · What happens: carry, fall, make, have · To what, where: sleeping princess, streets, pocket, track, scattered peas, street
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peas, crafty manikin), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 night | case |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fall | obl |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 carried | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 5 | sleeping | sleeping | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 princess | amod |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 carried | aux:pass |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 carried | advmod |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 night | acl |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 streets | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 streets | det |
| 12 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 night | punct |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 peas | det |
| 15 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fall | nsubj |
| 16 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 18 fall | advmod |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fall | aux |
| 18 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 pocket | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 pocket | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 22 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fall | obl | ||
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 made | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 made | cc |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 made | nsubj |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fall | parataxis |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 track | det |
| 28 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 had | punct |
| 30 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 34 had | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 manikin | det |
| 32 | crafty | crafty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 manikin | amod |
| 33 | manikin | manikin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 had | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 made | conj |
| 35 | just | just | ADV | _ | 38 peas | advmod |
| 36 | before | before | ADP | _ | 38 peas | case |
| 37 | scattered | scatter | ADJ | _ | 38 peas | amod |
| 38 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 had | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 street | case |
| 40 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 street | det |
| 41 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 had | obl |
| 42 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 43 was | expl |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 street | acl:relcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · passive | the sleeping princess | the streets | again | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | fall | past · do-support | some peas | princess's pocket | night | certainly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out pocket=Location | ||
| 3 | make | past | peas = pea | no track | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset track=Product | ||||
| 4 | have | past | the crafty manikin | scattered peas | every street | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Patient |
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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