Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 104
Throughout their lives they remained close friends, and both studied law at Marburg University.
Who acts: Grimm, both · What happens: remain, study · To what, where: close friends, law, Marburg University
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: who acts (Grimm, both), 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 | Throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 3 lives | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lives | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 remained | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 remained | nsubj |
| 5 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 friends | amod |
| 7 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 remained | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 studied | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 studied | cc |
| 10 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 studied | nsubj |
| 11 | studied | study | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 remained | conj |
| 12 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 studied | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 University | case |
| 14 | Marburg | Marburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 University | compound |
| 15 | University | University | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 studied | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | Grimm | close friends | throughout Grimm's lives | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme friend=Attribute | |||
| 2 | study | past | both | law | Marburg University | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Topic |
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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