Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 152

The maid was just milking the cow, and when she heard some one speaking, and saw no one, and perceived that it was the same voice that she had heard in the night, she was so terrified that she slipped off her stool, and spilt the milk.

Who acts: maid, speaking · What happens: milk, hear, see, perceive, be, slip off · To what, where: cow, one speaking, one, same voice, stool, milk

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, speaking), 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	5 milking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 milking	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 milking	advmod
5	milking	milk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cow	det
7	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 milking	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 heard	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 heard	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 milking	parataxis
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 speaking	det
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 speaking	nummod
15	speaking	speaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 saw	cc
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	conj
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 perceived	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 perceived	cc
23	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saw	parataxis
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 voice	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 voice	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 voice	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 voice	det
28	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 voice	amod
29	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 perceived	obl
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 heard	nsubj:pass
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 heard	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 heard	aux
33	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 voice	acl:relcl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 night	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 night	det
36	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heard	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 terrified	punct
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 terrified	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 terrified	cop
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 terrified	advmod
41	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 perceived	conj
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 slipped	mark
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 slipped	nsubj
44	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 terrified	advcl
45	off	off	ADP	_	47 stool	case
46	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 stool	nmod:poss
47	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 slipped	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 spilt	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 spilt	cc
50	spilt	spilt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	conj
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 milk	det
52	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 spilt	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 milking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	milk	past · progressive	the maid	the cow			vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Source
2	hear	past	maid	some one speaking			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speaking=Stimulus
3	see	past	maid not said here	no one			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
4	perceive	past					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	speaking	the same voice			tree rules
6	hear	past · perfect · passive		the same voice	night		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
7	is	past	maid			terrified property	tree rules
8	slip off	past	maid	maid's stool			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent stool=Patient
9	spilt	past	maid not said here	the milk			tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/152/