Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 72
And now the boy had to plant and water the garden, hoe and dig, and bear the wind and bad weather.
Who acts: boy · What happens: have, plant, hoe, dig, bear · To what, where: garden, wind
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 (boy), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 had | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 had | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 plant | mark |
| 7 | plant | plant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 water | cc |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plant | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 garden | det |
| 11 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plant | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hoe | punct |
| 13 | hoe | hoe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 plant | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dig | cc |
| 15 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 hoe | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bear | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bear | cc |
| 18 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 plant | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wind | det |
| 20 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bear | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 weather | cc |
| 22 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 weather | amod |
| 23 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wind | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the boy | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | plant | to-infinitive | the boy not said here | the garden | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hoe | infinitive | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | dig | infinitive | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | bear | infinitive | the boy not said here | the wind and bad weather | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Patient |
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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