Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 33
Now that very day the hundred years were ended; and as the prince came to the thicket he saw nothing but beautiful flowering shrubs, through which he went with ease, and they shut in after him as thick as ever.
Who acts: day, prince, man, princes · What happens: be, come, see, go, shut · To what, where: thicket, nothing
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 (day, prince, man, princes), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 ended | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 day | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 day | advmod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ended | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 years | det |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ended | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ended | cop |
| 9 | ended | ended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 came | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 saw | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 thicket | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thicket | det |
| 18 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ended | conj |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 saw | obj |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 shrubs | cc |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 shrubs | amod |
| 24 | flowering | flowering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shrubs | compound |
| 25 | shrubs | shrub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 nothing | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 went | punct |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 went | obl |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 went | nsubj |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 saw | conj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 ease | case |
| 32 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 went | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 shut | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 shut | cc |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 shut | nsubj |
| 36 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 saw | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 38 | after | after | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 shut | obl |
| 40 | as | as | ADV | _ | 41 thick | advmod |
| 41 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 shut | ccomp |
| 42 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 ever | case |
| 43 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 41 thick | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that day | now | ended property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | past | the prince | the thicket | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to thicket=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | see | past | man | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | go | past | man | with ease | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through which=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | shut | present | princes = prince | in man | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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