Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 87
They remarked that, after circling slowly for a time, and gradually getting nearer to the ground, it all of a sudden pounced down amongst a mass of rock.
Who acts: children · What happens: remark, circle, get, pounce down
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 remarked | nsubj |
| 2 | remarked | remark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 2 remarked | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 circling | punct |
| 5 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 circling | mark |
| 6 | circling | circle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 remarked | advcl |
| 7 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 6 circling | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 circling | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 getting | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 getting | cc |
| 13 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 14 getting | advmod |
| 14 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 remarked | advcl |
| 15 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 getting | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nearer | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 all | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 all | nsubj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 remarked | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 mass | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 mass | det |
| 24 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 mass | amod |
| 25 | pounced | pounce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 mass | amod |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 pounced | compound:prt |
| 27 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 29 mass | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 mass | det |
| 29 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 all | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 rock | case |
| 31 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 mass | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remarked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remark speech: assert | past | children = child | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | circle | gerund | children = child not said here | time | slowly property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | get | gerund | children = child not said here | gradually, near property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | pounce down | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/23/87/