Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 105
In a very short time the wind whistled, and the Evil One presently stood before him and looked at him with a vexed face.
Who acts: wind, Evil One · What happens: whistle, stand, look, vex
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 short | advmod |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whistled | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wind | det |
| 7 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whistled | nsubj |
| 8 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stood | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stood | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 One | det |
| 12 | Evil | Evil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 One | compound |
| 13 | One | One | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | nsubj |
| 14 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 15 stood | advmod |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 whistled | conj |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stood | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 looked | cc |
| 19 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stood | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 looked | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 face | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 face | det |
| 24 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 face | amod |
| 25 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 looked | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 whistled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whistle | past | the wind | time | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the Evil One | before wind | presently property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | |||
| 3 | look | past | the Evil One not said here | at wind; with a vexed face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | vex | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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