Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 6
She went and opened it, and it was a young fox, who said:
Who acts: wife, door, young fox · What happens: go, open, be, say · To what, where: door, young fox · 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 (wife, door, young fox), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 opened | cc |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 opened | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fox | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fox | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fox | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fox | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fox | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fox | amod |
| 12 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fox | acl:relcl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | wife | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | open | past | wife not said here | door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | door | a young fox | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | a young fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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