Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 16
It so happened that his road one day led through a thick wood, at the end of which was a large castle in a green meadow, and at one of the windows stood an old woman with a very beautiful young lady by her side looking about them.
Who acts: It, road, side · What happens: happen, lead, be, stand, look · To what, where: one day, thick wood, large castle, green meadow, old woman
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 (It, road, side), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 stood | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 road | nmod:poss |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 day | nummod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 road | conj |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 day | acl |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 wood | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wood | det |
| 12 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wood | amod |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 led | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 end | punct |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 end | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 end | det |
| 17 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 led | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 castle | obl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 castle | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 castle | det |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 castle | amod |
| 23 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 end | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 meadow | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 meadow | det |
| 26 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 meadow | amod |
| 27 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 castle | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 stood | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 stood | cc |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 one | case |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 stood | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 windows | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 windows | det |
| 34 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 stood | nsubj |
| 35 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | advcl |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 woman | det |
| 37 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 woman | amod |
| 38 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 stood | obj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 lady | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 lady | det |
| 41 | very | very | ADV | _ | 42 beautiful | advmod |
| 42 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 lady | amod |
| 43 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 lady | amod |
| 44 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 stood | obl |
| 45 | by | by | ADP | _ | 47 side | case |
| 46 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 side | nmod:poss |
| 47 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 lady | nmod |
| 48 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 47 side | acl |
| 49 | about | about | ADP | _ | 50 them | case |
| 50 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 looking | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lead | participle | one day not said here | a thick wood | at the end | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through wood=Destination | |||
| 3 | is a | past | a large castle | a green meadow | of the end | tree rules | |||
| 4 | stand | past | huntsman's road and one day | a old woman | at one; with a beautiful young lady by woman's side | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent woman=Theme at one=Destination | |||
| 5 | look | gerund | woman's side not said here | about windows = window | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about they=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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