Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 75
Then he took out a sack of pearls which lay in the rushes, and without another word he dragged it away and disappeared behind a stone.
Who acts: wind, pearls · What happens: take out, lay, drag away, disappear · To what, where: sack, rushes, stone
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 (wind, pearls), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sack | det |
| 6 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 pearls | case |
| 8 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sack | nmod |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 10 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 pearls | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 rushes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rushes | det |
| 13 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lay | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dragged | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dragged | cc |
| 16 | without | without | ADP | _ | 18 word | case |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 word | det |
| 18 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dragged | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 dragged | nsubj |
| 20 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 dragged | obj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 dragged | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 disappeared | cc |
| 24 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 dragged | conj |
| 25 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 27 stone | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 stone | det |
| 27 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 disappeared | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | wind | a sack of pearls | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme | |||
| 2 | lay | present | pearls | the rushes | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in rush=Destination | ||||
| 3 | drag away | past | wind | sack | without another word; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | disappear | past | wind not said here | a stone | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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