Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 45

The three Dwarfs were peeping out again, but she did not greet them; and, stumbling on without looking at them, or speaking, she entered the room, and, seating herself by the fire, began to eat the bread and butter and meat. "

Who acts: three Dwarfs, girl · What happens: peep out, not greet, stumble on, look, speak, enter · To what, where: Dwarfs, room, girl, bread · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (three Dwarfs, girl), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Dwarfs	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 Dwarfs	nummod
3	Dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 peeping	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 peeping	aux
5	peeping	peep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 peeping	compound:prt
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 peeping	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 greet	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 greet	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 greet	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 greet	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 greet	advmod
13	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 peeping	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 greet	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 entered	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 entered	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 and	punct
18	stumbling	stumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 entered	advcl
19	on	on	ADP	_	18 stumbling	compound:prt
20	without	without	SCONJ	_	21 looking	mark
21	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 stumbling	advcl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 looking	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 speaking	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 speaking	cc
26	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 stumbling	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stumbling	punct
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 entered	nsubj
29	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 peeping	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 room	det
31	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 entered	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 began	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 began	cc
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 seating	punct
35	seating	seat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 began	ccomp
36	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 seating	obj
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 fire	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 fire	det
39	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 seating	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 seating	punct
41	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 entered	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 eat	mark
43	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 began	xcomp
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 bread	det
45	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 eat	obj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 butter	cc
47	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 bread	conj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 meat	cc
49	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 bread	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 peeping	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 peeping	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	peep out	past · progressive	the three Dwarfs			again		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not greet speech: greet	past · do-support	girl		Dwarfs = dwarf			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	stumble on	gerund	girl not said here					vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
4	look	gerund	girl not said here				at Dwarfs = dwarf	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
5	speak speech: other	gerund	girl not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	enter	past	girl	the room				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
7	seat	gerund		girl			by the fire	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Value
8	begin	past	girl not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	eat	to-infinitive	girl not said here	the bread and butter and meat				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient

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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