Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 57
So she ate of it, and like the others ran off into the court braying away.
Who acts: two, court · What happens: eat, run off, bray away · To what, where: court
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 (two, court), 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 ate | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ate | nsubj |
| 3 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ate | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ran | cc |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 others | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 others | det |
| 10 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ran | obl |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ate | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 ran | compound:prt |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 court | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 court | det |
| 15 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | obl |
| 16 | braying | bray | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 court | acl |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 braying | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | two | of dish | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source | ||||
| 2 | run off | past | two not said here | into the court result; like the others | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into court=Result | ||||
| 3 | bray away | gerund | the court not said here | away property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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