Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 93
The rogues below thought the Evil One was descending the tree, and ran off, leaving everything behind them.
Who acts: rogues, Evil One · What happens: think, descend, run off, leave · To what, where: tree, everything · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (rogues, Evil One), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rogues | det |
| 2 | rogues | rogue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | below | below | ADV | _ | 4 thought | advmod |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 One | det |
| 6 | Evil | Evil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 One | compound |
| 7 | One | One | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 descending | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 descending | aux |
| 9 | descending | descend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 descending | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ran | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ran | cc |
| 14 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 ran | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 leaving | punct |
| 17 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 ran | advcl |
| 18 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 leaving | obj |
| 19 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 leaving | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the rogues | below property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | descend | past · progressive | the Evil One | the tree | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run off | past | the rogues not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave | gerund | the rogues not said here | everything | behind branches = branch | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent everything=Theme behind they=Location |
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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