Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 182
She next opened her nutshell, and brought out of it the dress that shone like the sun, and so went to the feast.
Who acts: beauty, dress · What happens: open, bring out, shine, go · To what, where: nutshell, feast
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 (beauty, dress), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | next | next | ADV | _ | 3 opened | advmod |
| 3 | opened | open | 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 | 5 nutshell | nmod:poss |
| 5 | nutshell | nutshell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 brought | cc |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 brought | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dress | det |
| 13 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | obj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 shone | nsubj |
| 15 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dress | acl:relcl |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 sun | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sun | det |
| 18 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shone | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 feast | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 feast | det |
| 25 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | beauty | beauty's nutshell | next property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nutshell=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring out | past | beauty not said here | nutshell | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shine | past | the dress | like the sun | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past | beauty not said here | the feast | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to feast=Initial_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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