Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 108
At this the thieves were very glad, not doubting but that she knew where to light on what they sought.
Who acts: thieves, Catherine · What happens: be, not doubt, know, seek
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thieves, Catherine), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 thieves | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thieves | det |
| 4 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 glad | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 glad | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 glad | advmod |
| 7 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 doubting | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 doubting | advmod |
| 10 | doubting | doubt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 glad | conj |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 knew | cc |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 knew | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 knew | nsubj |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 glad | conj |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 knew | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 light | case |
| 17 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 where | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 what | case |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 light | nmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sought | nsubj |
| 21 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the thieves | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not doubt | gerund | the thieves not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | know | past | Catherine | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | seek | past | thieves = thief | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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