Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 88
Instantly a heartrending cry reached their ears, and, running quickly to the place, they saw, with horror, that the eagle had seized their former acquaintance, the dwarf, and was just about to carry him off.
Who acts: heartrending cry, children · What happens: reach, run, see, seize, be, acquaint · To what, where: ears, horror, eagle
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 (heartrending cry, 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 5 reached | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cry | det |
| 3 | heartrending | heartrending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cry | compound |
| 4 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ears | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reached | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 and | punct |
| 11 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 saw | advcl |
| 12 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 11 running | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 running | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 running | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 horror | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 horror | case |
| 21 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 seized | punct |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 seized | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 eagle | det |
| 25 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 seized | aux |
| 27 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 saw | conj |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 acquaintance | nmod:poss |
| 29 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 acquaintance | amod |
| 30 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 seized | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 dwarf | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 dwarf | det |
| 33 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 acquaintance | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 carry | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 carry | cc |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 carry | cop |
| 37 | just | just | ADV | _ | 38 about | advmod |
| 38 | about | about | ADV | _ | 40 carry | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 carry | mark |
| 40 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 reached | advcl |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 carry | obj |
| 42 | off | off | ADP | _ | 40 carry | compound:prt |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | a heartrending cry | children's ears | instantly property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | |||
| 2 | run | gerund | children = child not said here | to the place result; quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to place=Result | ||||
| 3 | see | past | children = child | horror | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horror=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | seize | past · perfect · passive | the eagle | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is | past | a heartrending cry not said here | about, carry property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | acquaint | children = child | nom acquaintance «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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