Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 19
Whilst he slept, there came by a carter with a cart drawn by three horses, and loaded with two casks of wine.
Who acts: dog · What happens: sleep, come, draw, load · To what, where: cart
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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 | Whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 3 slept | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 slept | nsubj |
| 3 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 slept | punct |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 came | expl |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 carter | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 carter | det |
| 9 | carter | carter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 cart | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cart | det |
| 12 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carter | nmod |
| 13 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 cart | acl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 horses | case |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 horses | nummod |
| 16 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 drawn | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 loaded | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 loaded | cc |
| 19 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 came | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 casks | case |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 casks | nummod |
| 22 | casks | cask | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 loaded | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 wine | case |
| 24 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 casks | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | dog | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | there | by a carter with a cart | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by carter=Location | ||||
| 3 | draw | participle | a cart not said here | by three horses | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | load | participle | with two casks of wine | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cask=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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