Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 115
When Thumbling saw that they were gone, he crept back out of the subterranean passage. "
Who acts: gentlemen, fellow · What happens: thumbl, see, be, creep back · To what, where: subterranean passage · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentlemen, fellow), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Thumbling | thumbl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 crept | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 gone | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gone | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | cop |
| 7 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 crept | nsubj |
| 10 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 crept | advmod |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 passage | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 passage | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 passage | det |
| 15 | subterranean | subterranean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 passage | amod |
| 16 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crept | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 crept | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thumbl | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | see | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | gentlemen = gentleman | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | creep back | past | fellow | the subterranean passage | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out passage=Trajectory |
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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