Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 104
‘Ha!’ thought she, as she woke up and looked at it through the window, ‘after all I cannot prevent the sun rising.’
Who acts: Dame, I · What happens: think, wake up, look, not prevent, rise · To what, where: Dame, sun
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dame, I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 2 | Ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 5 thought | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ha | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 woke | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 woke | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 woke | nsubj |
| 10 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 woke | compound:prt |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 looked | cc |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 woke | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looked | obl |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 window | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 window | det |
| 18 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looked | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 all | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 all | punct |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 all | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 woke | obl |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 prevent | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 prevent | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 prevent | advmod |
| 26 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 all | acl:relcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sun | det |
| 28 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 prevent | obj |
| 29 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 prevent | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Dame | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wake up | past | Dame | after all | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look | past | Dame not said here | through the window; at sun | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not prevent | can | I | the sun | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer sun=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rise | gerund | I not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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