Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 181
Then she took her little lamp, and went into her cabin, and took off the fur skin, and washed the soot from off her face and hands, so that her beauty shone forth like the sun from behind the clouds.
Who acts: queen, beauty · What happens: take, go, take off, wash, shine · To what, where: little lamp, cabin, fur skin, soot, face, clouds
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, beauty), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lamp | nmod:poss |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lamp | amod |
| 6 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 cabin | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 cabin | nmod:poss |
| 12 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 took | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 skin | det |
| 18 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 skin | compound |
| 19 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 washed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 washed | cc |
| 22 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 soot | det |
| 24 | soot | soot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 washed | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 face | case |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 28 face | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 face | nmod:poss |
| 28 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 washed | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 hands | cc |
| 30 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 face | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 shone | punct |
| 32 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 36 shone | mark |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 so | fixed |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 35 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 shone | nsubj |
| 36 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 washed | conj |
| 37 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 36 shone | advmod |
| 38 | like | like | ADP | _ | 40 sun | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 sun | det |
| 40 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 shone | obl |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 clouds | case |
| 42 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 44 clouds | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 clouds | det |
| 44 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 shone | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | queen | queen's little lamp | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | queen not said here | queen's cabin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cabin=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | take off | past | queen not said here | the fur skin | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wash | past | queen not said here | the soot | queen's face and hands | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent soot=Theme from face=Source | |||
| 5 | shine | past | queen's beauty | the clouds | like the sun; forth property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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