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Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, sentence 20

It would have been all over with her, likewise, if, by good fortune, a tailor who was travelling in search of work, had not sat down to rest by the brook.

Who acts: event, tailor · What happens: be, travel, not sit down, rest, search · To what, where: search, good fortune, work

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 (event, tailor), 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

nsubjauxauxcopadvmodadvmodcaseoblpunctconjpunctmarkpunctcaseamodnsubj:passpunctdetapposnsubjauxacl:relclcaseoblcasenmodpunctauxadvmodcompound:prtmarkadvclcasedetoblpunctrootItPRONwouldAUXhaveAUXbeenAUXallADVoverADVwithADPherPRON,PUNCTlikewiseADV,PUNCTifSCONJ,PUNCTbyADPgoodADJfortuneNOUN,PUNCTaDETtailorNOUNwhoPRONwasAUXtravellingVERBinADPsearchNOUNofADPworkNOUN,PUNCThadAUXnotPARTsatVERBdownADPtoPARTrestVERBbyADPtheDETbrookNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 overnsubj
2wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin6 overaux
3havehaveAUXVerbForm=Inf6 overaux
4beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part6 overcop
5allallADV_6 overadvmod
6overoverADV_30 satadvmod
7withwithADP_8 hercase
8hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 overobl
9,,PUNCT_10 likewisepunct
10likewiselikewiseADV_6 overconj
11,,PUNCT_30 satpunct
12ififSCONJ_30 satmark
13,,PUNCT_16 fortunepunct
14bybyADP_16 fortunecase
15goodgoodADJDegree=Pos16 fortuneamod
16fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing30 satnsubj:pass
17,,PUNCT_19 tailorpunct
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 tailordet
19tailortailorNOUNNumber=Sing16 fortuneappos
20whowhoPRONPronType=Rel22 travellingnsubj
21wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 travellingaux
22travellingtravelVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part19 tailoracl:relcl
23ininADP_24 searchcase
24searchsearchNOUNNumber=Sing22 travellingobl
25ofofADP_26 workcase
26workworkNOUNNumber=Sing24 searchnmod
27,,PUNCT_16 fortunepunct
28hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 sataux
29notnotPARTPolarity=Neg30 satadvmod
30satsitVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
31downdownADP_30 satcompound:prt
32totoPART_33 restmark
33restrestVERBVerbForm=Inf30 satadvcl
34bybyADP_36 brookcase
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 brookdet
36brookbrookNOUNNumber=Sing33 restobl
37..PUNCT_30 satpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1iswould · perfecteventwith straw; all, over propertytree rules
2travelpast · progressivea tailorsearch of workvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Trajectory
3not sit downpast · perfect · passivegood fortunetree rules
4restto-infinitiveby the brookvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by brook=Location
5searchworknom search «act transitive»: of=patient

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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