Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 125
Just look on the ground, and observe from where my voice comes," he replied.
Who acts: you, voice · What happens: look, observe, come, reply
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 (you, voice), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 look | advmod |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 ground | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ground | det |
| 5 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 look | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 observe | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 observe | cc |
| 8 | observe | observe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 look | conj |
| 9 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 13 comes | mark |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 comes | advmod |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 voice | nmod:poss |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 comes | nsubj |
| 13 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 observe | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 replied | nsubj |
| 17 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 comes | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | on the ground | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on ground=Theme | ||||
| 2 | observe | infinitive | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come | present | my voice | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | voice | vn respond-113 «NP V»: 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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