Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 21
‘Spinning,’ said the old lady, and nodded her head, humming a tune, while buzz! went the wheel.
Who acts: old lady, buzz · What happens: spin, say, nod, hum, go · To what, where: head, tune, wheel · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old lady, buzz), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Spinning | punct |
| 2 | Spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Spinning | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Spinning | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lady | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lady | amod |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nodded | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 nodded | cc |
| 11 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nodded | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 humming | punct |
| 15 | humming | hum | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 nodded | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tune | det |
| 17 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 humming | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 went | mark |
| 20 | buzz | buzz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | nsubj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 buzz | punct |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 nodded | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wheel | det |
| 24 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | nod | past | lady's head | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||||
| 4 | hum | gerund | a tune | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go | past | buzz | the wheel | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wheel=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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