Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 37
He walked on; and as he walked through beautiful gardens he came to a delightful shady spot in which stood a couch; and he thought to himself, as he felt tired, that he would rest himself for a while, and gaze on the lovely scenes around him.
Who acts: door, delightful shady spot · What happens: walk on, walk, come, stand, think, feel · To what, where: beautiful gardens, delightful shady spot, couch, door
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, delightful shady spot), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 walked | advmod |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 walked | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 walked | nsubj |
| 8 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | advcl |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 gardens | case |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gardens | amod |
| 11 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 walked | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 spot | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 spot | det |
| 16 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 spot | amod |
| 17 | shady | shady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 spot | amod |
| 18 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 stood | nsubj |
| 21 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 spot | acl:relcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 couch | det |
| 23 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stood | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 thought | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 thought | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 thought | nsubj |
| 27 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 himself | case |
| 29 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 thought | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 felt | punct |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 felt | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 felt | nsubj |
| 33 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 thought | parataxis |
| 34 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 felt | xcomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 rest | punct |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 rest | mark |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 rest | nsubj |
| 38 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 rest | aux |
| 39 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 felt | conj |
| 40 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 39 rest | obj |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 while | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 while | det |
| 43 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 rest | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 gaze | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 gaze | cc |
| 46 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 rest | conj |
| 47 | on | on | ADP | _ | 50 scenes | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 scenes | det |
| 49 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 scenes | amod |
| 50 | scenes | scene | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 gaze | obl |
| 51 | around | around | ADP | _ | 52 him | case |
| 52 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 scenes | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk on | past | door | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | door | beautiful gardens | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through garden=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | come | past | door | a delightful shady spot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to spot=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | a delightful shady spot | a couch | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer couch=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | door | door | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | feel | past | door | tired property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | rest | would | door | door | while | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme | |||
| 8 | gaze | infinitive | door not said here | on the lovely scenes around door | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on scene=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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