Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 13
At last she came to a little house, out of which an old woman peeped; but she had such large teeth that the girl was frightened, and was about to run away.
Who acts: girl · What happens: come, peep, have, frighten, be, run away · To what, where: last, old woman, such large teeth, girl
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 house | amod |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 woman | punct |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 woman | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 woman | obl |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woman | amod |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 16 | peeped | peep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 woman | acl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 21 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 teeth | amod |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 teeth | amod |
| 23 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 had | obj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 frightened | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 girl | det |
| 26 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 frightened | aux:pass |
| 28 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 had | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 about | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 about | cc |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 about | cop |
| 32 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 frightened | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 run | mark |
| 34 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 about | xcomp |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 34 run | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | girl | last | to a little house; out a old woman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location out woman=Destination | |||
| 2 | peep | participle | a old woman not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | past | girl | such large teeth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 4 | frighten | past · passive | the girl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | about property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | run away | to-infinitive | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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