Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 19
In the door there was a golden key, and when she turned it the door sprang open, and there sat an old lady spinning away very busily.
Who acts: princess, door, old lady · What happens: be, turn, spring, sit, spin away · To what, where: golden key, door, old lady
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, door, old lady), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 door | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 key | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 key | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 key | det |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 key | amod |
| 8 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 turned | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 turned | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 turned | nsubj |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 key | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 turned | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sprang | nsubj |
| 17 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 turned | parataxis |
| 18 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sprang | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sat | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sat | cc |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 sat | expl |
| 22 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 turned | conj |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 lady | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lady | amod |
| 25 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sat | obj |
| 26 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 lady | acl |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 spinning | advmod |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 busily | advmod |
| 29 | busily | busily | ADV | _ | 26 spinning | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 key | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a golden key | the door | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | princess | door | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spring | past | the door | open property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sit | past | princess not said here | a old lady | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lady=Theme | |||
| 5 | spin away | gerund | a old lady not said here | away, busily property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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