Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 153
She ran in the greatest haste to her master, and said, "Oh, heavens, pastor, the cow has been speaking!" "
Who acts: maid, heavens · What happens: run, say, speak · To what, where: greatest haste · 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 (maid, heavens), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 haste | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 haste | det |
| 5 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 haste | amod |
| 6 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 master | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 master | nmod:poss |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 heavens | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 heavens | punct |
| 15 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 17 heavens | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Oh | punct |
| 17 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 speaking | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pastor | punct |
| 19 | pastor | pastor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heavens | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 speaking | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cow | det |
| 22 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 speaking | nsubj |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 speaking | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 speaking | aux |
| 25 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 speaking | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 speaking | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | maid | the greatest haste | to maid's master result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to master=Result | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | maid not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | heavens and pastor | vn talk-37.5 «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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