Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 29
Just as it was getting dark, he ran up to the hut, and, knocking, said, "Sister mine, let me in."
Who acts: animal, King · What happens: get, run up, knock, say, let in · To what, where: hut, King · 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 (animal, King), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 5 getting | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 getting | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 getting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 getting | aux |
| 5 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 ran | advcl |
| 6 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 getting | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 getting | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 ran | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 hut | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hut | det |
| 13 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knocking | punct |
| 17 | knocking | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 said | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knocking | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ran | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mine | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 mine | punct |
| 22 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mine | compound |
| 23 | mine | mine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 let | punct |
| 25 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 let | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 let | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 let | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · progressive | animal | dark property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | run up | past | King | the hut | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hut=Destination | ||||
| 3 | knock | gerund | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | let in in a quote | infinitive | King | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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