Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 35
They were all drunk, and paid no heed to her cries and lamentations.
Who acts: words, crew · What happens: be, pay, cry · To what, where: heed
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 (words, crew), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drunk | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drunk | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 drunk | advmod |
| 4 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 paid | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 paid | cc |
| 7 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drunk | conj |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 heed | det |
| 9 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 paid | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 cries | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 cries | nmod:poss |
| 12 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 paid | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lamentations | cc |
| 14 | lamentations | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cries | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drunk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | words = word | all, drunk property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pay | past | words = word not said here | no heed | to crew's cries and lamentations | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset | |||
| 3 | cry | crew | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=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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