Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 100
Up jumped the dwarf in extremest terror, but could not get to his hiding-place, the bear was too close to him; so he cried out in very evident anguish--
Who acts: bear, space · What happens: jump, not get, be, cry out · To what, where: dwarf, extremest terror, space, evident anguish
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, space), 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 2 jumped | advmod |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dwarf | det |
| 4 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 terror | case |
| 6 | extremest | extreme | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 terror | amod |
| 7 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 get | cc |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 get | advmod |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 place | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 place | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 hiding | punct |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 close | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bear | det |
| 20 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 close | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 close | cop |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 close | advmod |
| 23 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 get | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 close | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 cried | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 cried | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 cried | nsubj |
| 29 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 cried | compound:prt |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 anguish | case |
| 32 | very | very | ADV | _ | 33 evident | advmod |
| 33 | evident | evident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 anguish | amod |
| 34 | anguish | anguish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cried | obl |
| 35 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | the dwarf | extremest terror | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent dwarf=Theme in terror=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | not get | could | to space's hiding place result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the bear | space | close property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | cry out speech: express | past | space | evident anguish | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in anguish=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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