Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 88
As soon as the eldest daughter saw him, she was so terrified at his countenance that she shrieked out and ran away.
Who acts: latter · What happens: see, be, shriek out, run away · To what, where: speech, countenance
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 (latter), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 saw | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 daughter | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 daughter | det |
| 5 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 daughter | amod |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 terrified | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 terrified | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 terrified | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 terrified | advmod |
| 13 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 saw | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 countenance | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 16 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 terrified | obl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 shrieked | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 shrieked | nsubj |
| 19 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 terrified | advcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 shrieked | compound:prt |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ran | cc |
| 22 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 shrieked | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 ran | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | speech | as the eldest daughter; soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus as daughter=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | past | latter | speech's countenance | terrified property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | shriek out | past | latter | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 4 | run away | past | latter not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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