Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 90
It so happened that just as he was turning a corner, and the little one was crying, "Gee up," two strange men came towards him. "
Who acts: It, creature, little one, two strange men · What happens: happen, turn, cry, gee up, come · To what, where: corner · 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 (It, creature, little one, two strange men), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 turning | mark |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 turning | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 turning | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 turning | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 turning | aux |
| 9 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 happened | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 corner | det |
| 11 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turning | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 crying | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 crying | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 one | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | amod |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crying | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 crying | aux |
| 18 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 happened | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Gee | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Gee | punct |
| 21 | Gee | gee | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | parataxis |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 Gee | compound:prt |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 came | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 came | punct |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 men | nummod |
| 26 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 men | amod |
| 27 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 came | nsubj |
| 28 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 Gee | conj |
| 29 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 came | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 Gee | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Gee | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | turn | past · progressive | creature | a corner | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent corner=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past · progressive | the little one | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | gee up in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | come | past | two strange men | towards creature | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_Location |
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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