Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 149
In this little room the windows are forgotten," said he, "and no sun shines in, neither will a candle be brought."
Who acts: rascal · What happens: forget, say, shine, bring · To what, where: windows, little room, candle · 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 (rascal), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 room | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 room | nsubj |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 room | amod |
| 4 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forgotten | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 windows | det |
| 6 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 forgotten | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 8 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 forgotten | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 forgotten | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 shines | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 he | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 he | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sun | cc |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 sun | det |
| 17 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 he | conj |
| 18 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | in | in | ADV | _ | 18 shines | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 brought | punct |
| 21 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 brought | cc:preconj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 brought | aux |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 candle | det |
| 24 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 brought | nsubj |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 brought | aux:pass |
| 26 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 forgotten | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 brought | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | present · passive | the windows | little room | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | shine | present | rascal | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 4 | bring | future · passive | a candle | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
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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