Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 2
In front of the cottage was a garden wherein stood two rose-trees, one of which bore white and the other red roses.
What happens: be, stand, bear · To what, where: garden, front, two rose trees
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 front | case |
| 2 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 garden | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 cottage | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cottage | det |
| 5 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 front | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 garden | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 stood | advmod |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 garden | acl:relcl |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 trees | nummod |
| 12 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trees | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 rose | punct |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stood | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 trees | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 bore | nsubj |
| 19 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 one | acl:relcl |
| 20 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bore | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 roses | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 roses | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 roses | amod |
| 24 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 roses | amod |
| 25 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 garden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a garden | front of the cottage | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | two rose trees | wherein property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | bear | past | white property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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