Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 54
Meanwhile the girl had been looking for strawberries out of doors, but as she could find none she went home very peevish.
Who acts: girl · What happens: look, find, go · To what, where: none
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 (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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 6 looking | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looking | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looking | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 looking | aux |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 strawberries | case |
| 8 | strawberries | strawberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looking | obl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 doors | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 doors | case |
| 11 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 strawberries | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 find | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 find | cc |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 find | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 find | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 find | aux |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 looking | conj |
| 18 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 17 find | obj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 none | acl:relcl |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 peevish | advmod |
| 23 | peevish | peevish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 find | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · perfect · progressive | the girl | for strawberries out doors; meanwhile property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for strawberry=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | could | girl | none | peevish property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Topic | |||
| 3 | go | past | girl | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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.
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