Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 69
But in the night the kitchen-boy saw a Duck swimming through the brook, and the Duck asked:
Who acts: kitchen boy, Duck · What happens: see, swim, ask · To what, where: Duck, brook
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 (kitchen boy, Duck), 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 | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 night | det |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boy | det |
| 6 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 boy | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 kitchen | punct |
| 8 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 asked | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Duck | det |
| 11 | Duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 Duck | acl |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 brook | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 brook | det |
| 15 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swimming | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 asked | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Duck | det |
| 19 | Duck | Duck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 asked | nsubj |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the kitchen boy | a Duck | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer duck=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | swim | gerund | a Duck not said here | the brook | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through brook=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Duck | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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