Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 46
Three-Eyes, however, cunningly shut it too, and feigned to be asleep, while she was really watching; and soon Two-Eyes, thinking all safe, repeated the words:
Who acts: Eye, Two Eyes · What happens: feign, be, watch, think, repeat · To what, where: all, words
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eye, Two 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Eyes | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Three | punct |
| 3 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shut | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Eyes | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 shut | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | cunningly | cunningly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shut | amod |
| 8 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 shut | nsubj |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 shut | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feigned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 feigned | cc |
| 13 | feigned | feign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shut | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 asleep | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 asleep | cop |
| 16 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feigned | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 watching | punct |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 watching | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 watching | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 watching | aux |
| 21 | really | really | ADV | _ | 22 watching | advmod |
| 22 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 feigned | advcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 thinking | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 thinking | cc |
| 25 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 thinking | advmod |
| 26 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 Eyes | nummod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Two | punct |
| 28 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 thinking | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 thinking | punct |
| 30 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 shut | conj |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 thinking | obj |
| 32 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 all | amod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 repeated | punct |
| 34 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 thinking | parataxis |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 words | det |
| 36 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 repeated | obj |
| 37 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feign | past | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | asleep property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | watch | past · progressive | Eye | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | Two Eyes | all | soon property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot all=Theme | |||
| 5 | repeat | participle | the words | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality |
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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