Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 41
So he picked out a fine head and ate of it; but scarcely had he swallowed two bites when he felt himself quite changed, and saw with horror that he was turned into an ass.
Who acts: cloud · What happens: pick out, eat, have, swallow, feel, change · To what, where: fine head, two bites, cloud, ass
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 (cloud), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 picked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 picked | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 head | det |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 head | amod |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ate | cc |
| 9 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ate | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 14 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 15 had | advmod |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 swallowed | nsubj |
| 17 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | ccomp |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 bites | nummod |
| 19 | bites | bite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 swallowed | obj |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 felt | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 felt | nsubj |
| 22 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | advcl |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 changed | nsubj |
| 24 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 25 changed | advmod |
| 25 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 felt | ccomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 saw | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 saw | cc |
| 28 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 horror | case |
| 30 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 saw | obl |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 turned | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 turned | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 turned | aux:pass |
| 34 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 saw | advcl |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 ass | case |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 ass | det |
| 37 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 turned | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick out | past | cloud | a fine head | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | cloud not said here | of head | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source | ||||
| 3 | have | past | cloud not said here | scarcely property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | swallow | past | cloud | two bites | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Patient | ||||
| 5 | feel | past | cloud | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | change | past | cloud | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | see | past | cloud not said here | with horror | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | turn | past · passive | cloud | a ass | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into ass=Trajectory |
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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