Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 48
Ah," she exclaimed in affright, "I am betrayed; I am carried off and taken away in the power of a strange merchant.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: exclaim, betray, carry off, take away · To what, where: affright, I, power · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 exclaimed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 5 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 affright | case |
| 7 | affright | affright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 exclaimed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 betrayed | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 betrayed | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 betrayed | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 betrayed | aux:pass |
| 12 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 exclaimed | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 carried | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 carried | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 carried | aux:pass |
| 16 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 carried | compound:prt |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 taken | cc |
| 19 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 carried | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 taken | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 power | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 power | det |
| 23 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taken | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 merchant | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 merchant | det |
| 26 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 merchant | amod |
| 27 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 power | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | Princess | affright | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | betray | present · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | carry off | present · passive | I | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take away | participle | the power of a strange merchant | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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