Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 187
The truth was, that she had run into her little cabin, pulled off her dress, blackened her face and hands, put on the fur-skin cloak, and was Cat-skin again.
Who acts: truth, little cabin · What happens: be, pull off, blacken, put · To what, where: truth, little cabin, dress, face, skin cloak, Cat skin
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 (truth, little cabin), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 truth | det |
| 2 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 blackened | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 run | cop |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 run | punct |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 run | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 run | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 run | aux |
| 8 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 truth | acl:relcl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 cabin | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 cabin | nmod:poss |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cabin | amod |
| 12 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 run | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pulled | punct |
| 14 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 cabin | acl |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 dress | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 dress | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pulled | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 truth | punct |
| 19 | blackened | blacken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 face | nmod:poss |
| 21 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 blackened | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hands | cc |
| 23 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 face | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 put | punct |
| 25 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 face | acl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 cloak | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 cloak | det |
| 28 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 skin | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 fur | punct |
| 30 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cloak | compound |
| 31 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 put | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 skin | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 skin | cc |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 skin | cop |
| 35 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 skin | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 Cat | punct |
| 37 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 blackened | obl |
| 38 | again | again | ADV | _ | 37 skin | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 blackened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | truth | the truth not said here | truth's little cabin | run property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | pull off | participle | truth's little cabin not said here | truth's dress | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | blacken | past | the truth | truth's face and hands | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent face=Patient | ||||
| 4 | put | participle | truth's face and hands not said here | the skin cloak | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cloak=Destination | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | Cat skin | again | tree rules |
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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