Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 54
And as he went he saw two asses in the court running about, and the salad lying on the ground.
Who acts: first, court, salad · What happens: go, see, run about, lie · To what, where: two asses, court, ground
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 (first, court, salad), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 saw | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 went | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | advcl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 asses | nummod |
| 8 | asses | ass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 court | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 court | det |
| 11 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 12 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 court | acl |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 running | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lying | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lying | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 salad | det |
| 17 | salad | salad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lying | nsubj |
| 18 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 saw | advcl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 ground | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ground | det |
| 21 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lying | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | first | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | first | two asses | the court | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ass=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | run about | gerund | the court not said here | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lie | gerund | the salad | the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location |
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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