Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 109
They have been an essential ingredient of children’s reading ever since.
Who acts: stories, children · What happens: be, read · To what, where: essential ingredient
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 (stories, children), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ingredient | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ingredient | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 ingredient | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ingredient | det |
| 5 | essential | essential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ingredient | amod |
| 6 | ingredient | ingredient | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 reading | case |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 reading | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 children | case |
| 10 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ingredient | nmod |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 since | advmod |
| 12 | since | since | ADV | _ | 6 ingredient | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ingredient | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present · perfect | stories = story | a essential ingredient | of children's reading; since property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | read | children | nom reading «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/60/109/