Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 30
It was not long before they grew quite at home, and played tricks with their clumsy guest.
Who acts: broom · What happens: be, play · To what, where: home, tricks
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 (broom), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grew | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 grew | advmod |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 grew | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 grew | nsubj |
| 7 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 grew | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 home | case |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grew | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 played | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 played | cc |
| 13 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grew | conj |
| 14 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 played | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 guest | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 guest | nmod:poss |
| 17 | clumsy | clumsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 guest | amod |
| 18 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 played | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | broom | home | grow, long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | play | past | broom not said here | tricks | with children's clumsy guest | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent trick=Theme with guest=Co-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.
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