Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 47
But when she came on deck, she perceived that they were upon the high sea, far from the shore, and were hastening on with all sail. "
Who acts: Princess, heart · What happens: come, perceive, be, hasten on · To what, where: deck
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 (Princess, heart), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 perceived | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 perceived | advcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 deck | case |
| 6 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 perceived | nsubj |
| 9 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 sea | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sea | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sea | cop |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 15 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sea | amod |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 perceived | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 far | punct |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 perceived | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 shore | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 shore | det |
| 21 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 far | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hastening | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hastening | cc |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 hastening | aux |
| 25 | hastening | hasten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 perceived | advcl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 hastening | compound:prt |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 sail | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 sail | det |
| 29 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hastening | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 perceived | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Princess | deck | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on deck=Location | ||||
| 2 | perceive | past | Princess | far property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | past | heart | upon the high sea | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hasten on | past · progressive | Princess not said here | with all sail | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with sail=Eventuality |
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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