Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 50
Three-Eyes watched all these proceedings; and presently Two-Eyes came and awoke her, saying, "Ah, sister! you are a good watcher, but come, let us go home now."
Who acts: Three, Two Eyes, sister, us · What happens: watch, come, awake, say, be, let · To what, where: proceedings, Eye, good watcher, us · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Three, Two Eyes, sister, us), 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 | 4 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 watched | punct |
| 3 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 watched | nsubj |
| 4 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 proceedings | det:predet |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 proceedings | det |
| 7 | proceedings | proceedings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 watched | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Eyes | cc |
| 10 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 13 Eyes | advmod |
| 11 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 Eyes | nummod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Two | punct |
| 13 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 watched | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 awoke | cc |
| 16 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 awoke | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saying | punct |
| 19 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 came | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sister | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 sister | punct |
| 22 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 24 sister | discourse |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ah | punct |
| 24 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 watcher | nsubj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 sister | punct |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 watcher | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 watcher | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 watcher | det |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 watcher | amod |
| 30 | watcher | watcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saying | ccomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 come | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 come | cc |
| 33 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 watched | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 let | punct |
| 35 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 come | conj |
| 36 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 let | obj |
| 37 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 let | xcomp |
| 38 | home | home | ADV | _ | 37 go | advmod |
| 39 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 go | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 come | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | Three | all proceedings | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proceedings=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Two Eyes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | awake | past | Two Eyes not said here | Eye | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: express | gerund | Two Eyes not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | sister | a good watcher | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | come in a quote | infinitive | Three not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | let in a quote | infinitive | Three not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | now | 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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