Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 60
The dead heard not, and silently allowed their rags to burn.
Who acts: rags · What happens: allow, burn · To what, where: rags
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 (rags), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heard | det |
| 2 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heard | amod |
| 3 | heard | heard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 allowed | ccomp |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 heard | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 allowed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 allowed | cc |
| 7 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 8 allowed | advmod |
| 8 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 rags | nmod:poss |
| 10 | rags | rag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 allowed | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 burn | mark |
| 12 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 allowed | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past | bodies's rags | silently property | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer rag=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | burn not said to happen | to-infinitive | bodies's rags not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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