Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 21
The girl passed on, going from room to room of the house, but they were all empty, and still she saw no one.
Who acts: girl, murderers · What happens: pass on, go, be, see · To what, where: room, one
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 (girl, murderers), 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 | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 passed | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 going | punct |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 passed | conj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 going | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 room | case |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 room | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 room | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 empty | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 empty | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 empty | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 empty | cop |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 empty | advmod |
| 19 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 passed | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saw | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 saw | cc |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 24 saw | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 saw | nsubj |
| 24 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 one | det |
| 26 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saw | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass on | participle | the girl | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | gerund | the girl not said here | room to room of the house | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | murderers = murderer | all, empty property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | past | girl | no one | still | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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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