Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 38
It was so slight, that the next morning he felt nothing of it, and when he heard the hunting cries outside, he exclaimed, "I cannot stop away--I must be there, and none shall catch me so easily again!"
Who acts: wound, King, hunting, none · What happens: be, feel, hear, cry, exclaim, not stop away · To what, where: nothing, 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 (wound, King, hunting, none), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 slight | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 slight | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 slight | advmod |
| 4 | slight | slight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 felt | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 felt | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 morning | det |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 morning | amod |
| 9 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 felt | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 felt | nsubj |
| 11 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 slight | conj |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 felt | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 nothing | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 exclaimed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 exclaimed | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 heard | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 heard | nsubj |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 exclaimed | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hunting | det |
| 21 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cries | nsubj |
| 22 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 heard | ccomp |
| 23 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 22 cries | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 heard | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 26 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 slight | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 stop | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 stop | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 stop | nsubj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 stop | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 stop | advmod |
| 32 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 33 | away | away | ADV | _ | 32 stop | advmod |
| 34 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 38 there | punct |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 there | nsubj |
| 36 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 there | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 there | cop |
| 38 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 slight | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 catch | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 catch | cc |
| 41 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 43 catch | nsubj |
| 42 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 catch | aux |
| 43 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 there | conj |
| 44 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 catch | obj |
| 45 | so | so | ADV | _ | 46 easily | advmod |
| 46 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 43 catch | advmod |
| 47 | again | again | ADV | _ | 43 catch | advmod |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 43 catch | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 slight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wound | slight property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | King | nothing | morning | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | |||
| 3 | hear | past | King | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | present | the hunting | outside property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | exclaim speech: express | past | King | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | not stop away in a quote | can | King | away property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | must | King | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | catch in a quote | shall | none | King | again | easily property | vn get-13.5.1 «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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