Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, sentence 13
She took nothing with her but a little ring which her father and mother had given her, a loaf of bread in case she should be hungry, a little pitcher of water in case she should be thirsty, and a little stool to rest upon when she should be weary.
Who acts: daughter, father · What happens: take, give, be, rest · To what, where: nothing, daughter
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Seven Ravens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, father), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 nothing | nmod |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 ring | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ring | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ring | amod |
| 9 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nothing | conj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 given | obj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 given | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mother | cc |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 father | conj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 given | aux |
| 16 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 nothing | advcl |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 given | iobj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 loaf | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 loaf | det |
| 20 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 bread | case |
| 22 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 loaf | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 28 hungry | case |
| 24 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 in | fixed |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 hungry | nsubj |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 hungry | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 hungry | cop |
| 28 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 loaf | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 pitcher | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 pitcher | det |
| 31 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 pitcher | amod |
| 32 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 water | case |
| 34 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pitcher | nmod |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 40 thirsty | case |
| 36 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 in | fixed |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 thirsty | nsubj |
| 38 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 thirsty | aux |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 thirsty | cop |
| 40 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 pitcher | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 stool | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 stool | cc |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 stool | det |
| 44 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 stool | amod |
| 45 | stool | stool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 rest | mark |
| 47 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 stool | acl |
| 48 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 53 weary | mark |
| 49 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 53 weary | mark |
| 50 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 weary | nsubj |
| 51 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 53 weary | aux |
| 52 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 53 weary | cop |
| 53 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 rest | advcl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | daughter | nothing | with girl; a loaf of bread obl; a little pitcher of water obl; a little stool obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past · perfect | daughter's father and mother | daughter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient which=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | should | daughter | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | should | daughter | thirsty property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | rest | to-infinitive | daughter not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | should | daughter | weary property | tree rules |
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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