Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 93
There is a cart coming, and a driver is calling to the horse, and still he is not to be seen!" "
Who acts: cart, driver · What happens: be, come, call, not be · To what, where: horse, driver · 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 (cart, driver), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cart | det |
| 4 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 cart | acl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 calling | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 calling | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 driver | det |
| 9 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 calling | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 calling | aux |
| 11 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 coming | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 horse | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horse | det |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 calling | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seen | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 seen | cc |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 seen | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 seen | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 seen | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 seen | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 seen | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 seen | aux:pass |
| 23 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 is | conj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a cart | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | a cart not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call | present · progressive | a driver | the horse | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to horse=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not is | present · passive | driver | still | see property | 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.
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