Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 61
The Soldier turned and saw a huge bear, which eyed him very ferociously. "
Who acts: Soldier, huge bear · What happens: turn, see, eye · To what, where: huge bear, soldier
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 (Soldier, huge bear), 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 Soldier | det |
| 2 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bear | det |
| 7 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bear | amod |
| 8 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 eyed | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 eyed | nsubj |
| 11 | eyed | eye | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bear | acl:relcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 eyed | obj |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 ferociously | advmod |
| 14 | ferociously | ferociously | ADV | _ | 11 eyed | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the Soldier | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | the Soldier not said here | a huge bear | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bear=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | eye | past | a huge bear | soldier | ferociously property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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