Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 29
The diamonds glittered so on all sides that they were delighted with the sight and picked up the finest.
Who acts: diamonds · What happens: glitter, be, pick up · To what, where: sides, finest
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 (diamonds), 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 | 2 diamonds | det |
| 2 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 glittered | nsubj |
| 3 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 glittered | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 sides | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 sides | det |
| 7 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 glittered | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 delighted | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 delighted | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 delighted | cop |
| 11 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 glittered | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 sight | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sight | det |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 delighted | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 picked | cc |
| 16 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 delighted | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 picked | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 finest | det |
| 19 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 picked | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glittered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glitter | past | the diamonds | all sides | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | diamonds = diamond | with the sight; delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pick up | participle | diamonds = diamond not said here | the finest | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Topic |
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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