Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 27
After this still more came, each with one tail more than the other, but they were all turned away, until at last one came who had nine tails, like old Mr Fox.
What happens: come, turn away, have · To what, where: each, tails, nine tails
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, First Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 came | obl |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 came | advmod |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 each | punct |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 came | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 tail | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 tail | nummod |
| 10 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 each | nmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 tail | amod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 other | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 other | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 more | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 turned | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 turned | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 turned | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 turned | aux:pass |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 turned | advmod |
| 20 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 came | advcl |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 turned | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 came | punct |
| 23 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 27 came | mark |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 one | case |
| 25 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 one | amod |
| 26 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 came | obl |
| 27 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 had | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 came | ccomp |
| 30 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 tails | nummod |
| 31 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 had | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Fox | punct |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 36 Fox | case |
| 34 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Fox | amod |
| 35 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Fox | compound |
| 36 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tails | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | each | after this; still | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn away | past · passive | tails = tail | all, away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | at last one | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | past | nine tails | like old Mr Fox | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=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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