Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 12
The next morning when he awoke he lifted up his pillow, and there lay the piece of gold glittering underneath; the same happened next day, and indeed every day when he arose.
Who acts: huntsman, same · What happens: awake, lift up, lie, glitter, happen, arise · To what, where: pillow, piece
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huntsman, same), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 awoke | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 awoke | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 awoke | nsubj |
| 6 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lifted | nsubj |
| 8 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 awoke | ccomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 lifted | compound:prt |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 11 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lifted | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lay | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lay | cc |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 lay | advmod |
| 15 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lifted | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 piece | det |
| 17 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lay | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 gold | case |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 piece | nmod |
| 20 | glittering | glitter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 lay | advcl |
| 21 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 20 glittering | advmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 happened | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 same | det |
| 24 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 happened | nsubj |
| 25 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 awoke | conj |
| 26 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 day | amod |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 day | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 day | cc |
| 30 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 32 day | advmod |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 day | det |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 arose | advmod |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 arose | nsubj |
| 35 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 day | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | huntsman | morning | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lift up | past | huntsman | huntsman's pillow | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pillow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | the piece of gold | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location piece=Theme | ||||
| 4 | glitter | gerund | underneath property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | happen | past | the same | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | arise | past | huntsman | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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