Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 60

All at once the wise Woman stood in front of her again, and asked why she was crying. "

Who acts: All, Woman · What happens: stand, ask, cry · To what, where: front · 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 (All, Woman), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 stood	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	6 Woman	case
3	once	once	SCONJ	_	6 Woman	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Woman	det
5	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Woman	amod
6	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 All	nmod
7	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 front	case
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 again	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 again	nmod:poss
12	again	again	ADV	_	9 front	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 asked	cc
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stood	parataxis
16	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	19 crying	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 crying	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 crying	aux
19	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 asked	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stood	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	stand	past	All	front	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location
2	ask speech: ask	past			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cry speech: express	past · progressive	Woman		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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