Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 138
The maid who was listening, heard this quite distinctly, and jumped out of bed and rushed to the door.
Who acts: maid · What happens: listen, hear, jump out, rush · To what, where: 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 (maid), 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 maid | det |
| 2 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 listening | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 listening | aux |
| 5 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 maid | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 maid | punct |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 heard | obj |
| 9 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 distinctly | advmod |
| 10 | distinctly | distinctly | ADV | _ | 7 heard | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 jumped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 jumped | cc |
| 13 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | parataxis |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 bed | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 bed | case |
| 16 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 jumped | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rushed | cc |
| 18 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 jumped | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 door | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 door | det |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rushed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past · progressive | the maid | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | the maid | this | distinctly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | jump out | past | bed | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bed=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | rush | participle | to the door result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to door=Result |
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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