Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 6
By and by she looked up and saw a Woman standing by, who asked, "Why are you weeping, Two-Eyes?" "
Who acts: sister, Woman, you · What happens: look up, see, stand by, ask, weep · To what, where: Two Eyes · 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 (sister, Woman, you), 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 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 looked | mark |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 looked | cc |
| 3 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 looked | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 looked | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Woman | det |
| 10 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 Woman | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 standing | fixed |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 weeping | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 weeping | punct |
| 18 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 weeping | advmod |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 weeping | aux |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 weeping | nsubj |
| 21 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Eyes | punct |
| 23 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 Eyes | nummod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Two | punct |
| 25 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 weeping | obj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 25 Eyes | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Eyes | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 weeping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | sister | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | past | sister not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | stand by | gerund | a Woman not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | a Woman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | weep in a quote | present · progressive | you | Two Eyes | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=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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