Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 29
Thereupon he rang the bell, and then going home, he went to bed without saying a word, and fell fast asleep.
Who acts: boy · What happens: ring, go, say, fall · To what, where: bell, bed, word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 rang | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rang | nsubj |
| 3 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bell | det |
| 5 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rang | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 going | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 going | advmod |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rang | advcl |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 going | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rang | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 bed | case |
| 15 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 16 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 17 saying | mark |
| 17 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 went | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 word | det |
| 19 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saying | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fell | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fell | cc |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rang | conj |
| 23 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 fell | advmod |
| 24 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fell | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | past | boy | the bell | thereupon property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | gerund | boy not said here | then | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past | boy | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | boy not said here | a word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | boy not said here | 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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