Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 82
She, however, caught at his cap and pulled it off, and then his golden hair rolled down on his shoulders, and it was splendid to behold.
Who acts: cap · What happens: catch, pull off, roll down, be · To what, where: daughter, cap, golden hair, shoulders
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 (cap), 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 | 5 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 She | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 caught | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 cap | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 cap | nmod:poss |
| 8 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pulled | cc |
| 10 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pulled | obj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 pulled | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hair | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hair | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 hair | advmod |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hair | nmod:poss |
| 17 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hair | amod |
| 18 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | obl |
| 19 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 hair | acl |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 rolled | compound:prt |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 shoulders | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 23 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rolled | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 splendid | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 splendid | cc |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 splendid | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 splendid | cop |
| 28 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 caught | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 behold | mark |
| 30 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 28 splendid | discourse |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | participle · passive | daughter | boy's cap | boy's golden hair obl; however property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at cap=Asset | |||
| 2 | pull off | past | cap | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | roll down | participle | boy's golden hair not said here | boy's shoulders | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shoulder=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is | past | cap | splendid property | 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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