Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, sentence 18
The coal slipped after her, hissed when she got into the water, and breathed her last.
Who acts: coal, straw · What happens: slip, hiss, get, breathe · To what, where: water, last
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coal, straw), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 coal | det |
| 2 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slipped | nsubj |
| 3 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 slipped | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hissed | punct |
| 7 | hissed | hiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slipped | conj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 got | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hissed | advcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 breathed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 breathed | cc |
| 16 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slipped | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 last | nmod:poss |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 breathed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip | past | the coal | after straw | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | hiss | past | the coal not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get | past | straw | the water | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into water=Destination | ||||
| 4 | breathe | past | the coal not said here | straw's last | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent last=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/7/18/