Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 134

The cook, who slept in the next room, heard this and sat up in bed, and listened.

Who acts: cook · What happens: sleep, hear, sit up, listen · To what, where: next room, this, bed

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 (cook), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 slept	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 slept	nsubj
5	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cook	acl:relcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 room	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 room	amod
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slept	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cook	punct
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 heard	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sat	cc
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 sat	compound:prt
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 bed	case
17	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 listened	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 listened	cc
20	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	parataxis
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sleep	past	the cook		the next room	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location
2	hear	past	the cook	this		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
3	sit up	past	the cook not said here		bed	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
4	listen	past				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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