Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 76
It happened that soon afterwards the mother sent the two children to the town to buy needles and thread, and laces and ribbons.
Who acts: It, mother · What happens: happen, send, buy · To what, where: laces, two children, town, needles
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 (It, mother), 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 | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 sent | mark |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 afterwards | advmod |
| 5 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 8 sent | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mother | det |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | nsubj |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 children | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 children | nummod |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sent | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 town | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 town | det |
| 14 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 buy | mark |
| 16 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sent | advcl |
| 17 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 buy | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 thread | cc |
| 19 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 needles | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 laces | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 laces | cc |
| 22 | laces | lace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 happened | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ribbons | cc |
| 24 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 laces | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | laces and ribbons | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | past | the mother | the two children | the town | afterwards property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to town=Destination | ||
| 3 | buy | to-infinitive | the mother not said here | needles and thread | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=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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