Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 68
A wagoner walking behind overheard him, and asked, "Who are you?"
Who acts: wagoner, you · What happens: walk behind, overhear, ask, be · To what, where: boy · 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 (wagoner, you), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 wagoner | det |
| 2 | wagoner | wagoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 overheard | nsubj |
| 3 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 wagoner | acl |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 3 walking | advmod |
| 5 | overheard | overhear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 overheard | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 overheard | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Who | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Who | punct |
| 12 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Who | cop |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 Who | nsubj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 overheard | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 overheard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk behind | gerund | a wagoner not said here | behind property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | overhear | past | a wagoner | boy | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | a wagoner not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | you | tree rules |
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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