Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 14
There she saw a lonely house, looking so grim and mysterious, that it did not please her at all.
Who acts: feeling, house · What happens: see, look, not please · To what, where: lonely house, feeling, all
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feeling, house), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | expl |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 5 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looking | punct |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | conj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 grim | advmod |
| 10 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 looking | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mysterious | cc |
| 12 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grim | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 please | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 please | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 please | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 please | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 please | advmod |
| 18 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saw | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 please | obj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 all | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 please | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | feeling | a lonely house | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | feeling not said here | grim property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not please | past · do-support | house | feeling | all | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
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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