Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 12
She arose when they opened their eyes, and looked kindly at them; but said no word, and passed from their sight into the wood.
Who acts: mother, children · What happens: arise, open, look, say, pass, sight · To what, where: eyes, word, sight · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mother, children), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 arose | nsubj |
| 2 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 opened | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 opened | nsubj |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 arose | advcl |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 opened | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 arose | conj |
| 11 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 10 looked | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 arose | parataxis |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 word | det |
| 18 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 passed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 passed | cc |
| 21 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 said | conj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 sight | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sight | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 passed | obl |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 wood | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wood | det |
| 27 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 passed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | mother | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | open | past | children = child | children's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | past | mother not said here | at children = child; kindly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | no word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||||
| 5 | pass | participle | children's sight | into the wood | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial_Location into wood=Destination | ||||
| 6 | sight | children = child | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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