Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 39
Just as the brothers finished speaking, the quarter of an hour elapsed, and they all flew out of the window again like Swans.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: finish, speak, elapse, fly out · To what, where: quarter, hour, window · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 5 finished | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 finished | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brothers | det |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 finished | nsubj |
| 5 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 finished | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 quarter | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 quarter | det |
| 9 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 speaking | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hour | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hour | det |
| 12 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quarter | nmod |
| 13 | elapsed | elapse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 hour | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 flew | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 flew | nsubj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 flew | advmod |
| 18 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | advcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 window | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 window | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 window | det |
| 22 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flew | obl |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 flew | advmod |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 Swans | case |
| 25 | Swans | Swan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 flew | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past | the brothers | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | the brothers not said here | the quarter of a hour | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | elapse | participle | a hour not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fly out | past | brothers = brother | the window | again | like Swans | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=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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