Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 21
But she thought--out of doors she will be frozen and starved, so that my eyes will never see her again!
Who acts: mother, eyes · What happens: think, freeze, starve, not see · To what, where: mother
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, eyes), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 thought | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 doors | punct |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 doors | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 doors | case |
| 7 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 frozen | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 frozen | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 frozen | aux:pass |
| 11 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 doors | acl:relcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 starved | cc |
| 13 | starved | starve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 frozen | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 15 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 see | mark |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 so | fixed |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 see | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 see | aux |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 see | advmod |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 see | obj |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 see | advmod |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | mother | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | freeze | future · passive | mother | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||||
| 3 | starve | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not see | future | my eyes | mother | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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