Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 4
When it became known that the old fox was dead, suitors presented themselves.
Who acts: old fox, suitors · What happens: know, be, present · To what, where: cooking, suitors · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (old fox, suitors), 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 | 4 known | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 known | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | aux:pass |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 dead | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fox | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fox | amod |
| 8 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dead | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dead | cop |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 known | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 presented | punct |
| 12 | suitors | suitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 presented | nsubj |
| 13 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dead | conj |
| 14 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 presented | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | cooking | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the old fox | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | present | past | suitors | suitors = suitor | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=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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