Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 66
Saying this, he swung the sack across his shoulder, and went off, without even casting a glance at the children.
Who acts: beard · What happens: say, swing, go off, cast · To what, where: this, sack, shoulder, glance · 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 (beard), 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 | Saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 swung | advcl |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Saying | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Saying | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 swung | nsubj |
| 5 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sack | det |
| 7 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swung | obj |
| 8 | across | across | ADP | _ | 10 shoulder | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 10 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swung | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 swung | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 went | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 casting | punct |
| 16 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 18 casting | mark |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 casting | advmod |
| 18 | casting | cast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 went | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 glance | det |
| 20 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 casting | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 children | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 children | det |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 casting | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | beard not said here | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | swing | past | beard | the sack | beard's shoulder | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sack=Theme across shoulder=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | go off | past | beard not said here | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cast | gerund | beard not said here | a glance | at the children | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent glance=Theme at child=Destination |
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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