Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 15
She stepped inside, but not a soul was to be seen, and a great silence reigned throughout.
Who acts: feeling, great silence · What happens: step, see, reign throughout · To what, where: soul
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, great silence), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stepped | nsubj |
| 2 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 2 stepped | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seen | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 seen | cc |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 soul | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 soul | det |
| 8 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | aux:pass |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 seen | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seen | aux:pass |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stepped | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 reigned | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 reigned | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 silence | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 silence | amod |
| 17 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reigned | nsubj |
| 18 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stepped | conj |
| 19 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 18 reigned | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | feeling | inside property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past · passive | a soul | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | reign throughout | past | a great silence | 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: «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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