Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 103
The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859), were born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, in the German state of Hesse.
What happens: bear · To what, where: Brothers Grimm, Hanau
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 3 Grimm | det |
| 2 | Brothers | Brother | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 Grimm | compound |
| 3 | Grimm | Grimm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 born | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Jacob | punct |
| 5 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Grimm | conj |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 1785-1863 | punct |
| 7 | 1785-1863 | 1785-1863 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 Jacob | appos |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 1785-1863 | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Wilhelm | cc |
| 10 | Wilhelm | Wilhelm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Grimm | conj |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 1786-1859 | punct |
| 12 | 1786-1859 | 1786-1859 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 Grimm | list |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 1786-1859 | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Grimm | punct |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 born | aux:pass |
| 16 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Hanau | case |
| 18 | Hanau | Hanau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 born | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Frankfurt | punct |
| 20 | near | near | ADP | _ | 21 Frankfurt | case |
| 21 | Frankfurt | Frankfurt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 born | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 state | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 state | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 state | det |
| 25 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 state | amod |
| 26 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 born | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Hesse | case |
| 28 | Hesse | Hesse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 state | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | the Brothers Grimm and Jacob and Wilhelm | Hanau | near Frankfurt | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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