Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 45
Many hours passed away while she looked at everything, and in her joy she did not remark that the ship sailed on and on.
Who acts: Many hours, Princess, ship · What happens: pass away, look, not remark, sail, joy · To what, where: joy
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many hours, Princess, ship), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hours | amod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 looked | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 everything | case |
| 9 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 looked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remark | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 remark | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 joy | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 joy | nmod:poss |
| 14 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remark | obl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 remark | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 remark | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 remark | advmod |
| 18 | remark | remark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 sailed | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ship | det |
| 21 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sailed | nsubj |
| 22 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 remark | advcl |
| 23 | on | on | ADV | _ | 22 sailed | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 on | cc |
| 25 | on | on | ADV | _ | 23 on | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away | past | Many hours | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Princess | at everything | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at everything=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not remark speech: assert | past · do-support | Princess | Princess's joy | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sail | past | the ship | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | joy | Princess | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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