Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 29
They waited so long that at last their eyes closed from weariness, and they fell fast asleep.
Who acts: wife, last eyes · What happens: wait, close, fall · To what, where: weariness
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, last eyes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 waited | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 closed | mark |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 last | case |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eyes | amod |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 closed | nsubj |
| 10 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 waited | advcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 weariness | case |
| 12 | weariness | weariness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 closed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fell | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | conj |
| 17 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 fell | advmod |
| 18 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fell | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | wife | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | close | participle | wife's last eyes | weariness | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | wife | asleep, fast property | vn occur-48.3 «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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