Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 27
As soon as she had said this, the little Fawn sprang off quite glad and merry in the fresh breeze.
Who acts: Sister, little Fawn · What happens: say, spring off · To what, where: this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sister, little Fawn), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 sprang | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 said | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | aux |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 soon | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 soon | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Fawn | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Fawn | amod |
| 11 | Fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sprang | nsubj |
| 12 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 sprang | compound:prt |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 glad | advmod |
| 15 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sprang | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 merry | cc |
| 17 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 glad | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 breeze | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 breeze | det |
| 20 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 breeze | amod |
| 21 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 merry | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | Sister | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | spring off | past | the little Fawn | soon property | vn run-51.3.2 «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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