Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 83
Then he ran off into the forest, peering about him on all sides; and after a while he saw the two Giants sound asleep under a tree, snoring so loudly that the branches above them shook violently.
Who acts: Giant, two Giants, branches · What happens: run off, peer, see, sound, snore, shake · To what, where: forest, sides · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giant, two Giants, branches), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ran | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 ran | compound:prt |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 peering | punct |
| 9 | peering | peer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ran | advcl |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 peering | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 sides | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 sides | det |
| 14 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 peering | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 saw | cc |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 while | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 while | det |
| 19 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Giants | det |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 Giants | nummod |
| 24 | Giants | Giant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 sound | nsubj |
| 25 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 saw | ccomp |
| 26 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sound | xcomp |
| 27 | under | under | ADP | _ | 29 tree | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 tree | det |
| 29 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 asleep | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 snoring | punct |
| 31 | snoring | snore | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 saw | conj |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 loudly | advmod |
| 33 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 31 snoring | advmod |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 shook | mark |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 branches | det |
| 36 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 shook | nsubj |
| 37 | above | above | ADP | _ | 38 them | case |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 branches | nmod |
| 39 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 snoring | advcl |
| 40 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 39 shook | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | Giant | then | into the forest result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into forest=Result | |||
| 2 | peer | gerund | Giant not said here | all sides | about Giant | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | past | Giant | while | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | sound | present | the two Giants | asleep property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | snore | gerund | Giant not said here | loudly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | shake | past | the branches above knights | violently property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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: «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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