Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 215
But this time she kept away too long, and stayed beyond the half-hour; so she had not time to take off her fine dress, and threw her fur mantle over it, and in her haste did not blacken herself all over with soot, but left one of her fingers white.
Who acts: dance · What happens: keep away, stay, have, take off, throw, not blacken · To what, where: fine dress, fur mantle, room, dance, haste
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 (dance), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 kept | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 kept | advmod |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 long | advmod |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kept | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stayed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stayed | cc |
| 11 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | conj |
| 12 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 16 hour | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hour | det |
| 14 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 16 hour | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 half | punct |
| 16 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stayed | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 had | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | conj |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 time | advmod |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 take | mark |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 time | acl |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 take | compound:prt |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 dress | nmod:poss |
| 27 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 dress | amod |
| 28 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 threw | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 threw | cc |
| 31 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | conj |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 mantle | nmod:poss |
| 33 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 mantle | compound |
| 34 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 threw | obj |
| 35 | over | over | ADP | _ | 36 it | case |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 threw | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 blacken | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 blacken | cc |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 haste | case |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 haste | nmod:poss |
| 41 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 blacken | obl |
| 42 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 blacken | aux |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 blacken | advmod |
| 44 | blacken | blacken | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | parataxis |
| 45 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 44 blacken | obj |
| 46 | all | all | ADV | _ | 47 over | advmod |
| 47 | over | over | ADV | _ | 44 blacken | advmod |
| 48 | with | with | ADP | _ | 49 soot | case |
| 49 | soot | soot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 blacken | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 left | punct |
| 51 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 52 left | cc |
| 52 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | conj |
| 53 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 57 white | nummod |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 fingers | case |
| 55 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 56 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 56 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 one | nmod |
| 57 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 left | ccomp |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep away | past | dance | time | away, long property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | stay | past | dance not said here | hour | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | dance | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | take off | to-infinitive | dance not said here | dance's fine dress | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme | ||||
| 5 | throw | past | dance not said here | dance's fur mantle | room | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent mantle=Theme over it=Destination | |||
| 6 | not blacken | past · do-support | dance | dance's haste | with soot; over property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent herself=Patient with soot=Instrument | |||
| 7 | leave | past | dance not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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