Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 43
‘The old woman is right,’ said the robbers, and they ceased looking for the finger and sat down.
Who acts: old woman, robbers · What happens: be, say, cease, look, sit down · To what, where: robbers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old woman, robbers), 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 | _ | 6 right | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 right | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 right | cop |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 right | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 right | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 robbers | det |
| 11 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ceased | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ceased | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ceased | nsubj |
| 15 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 ceased | xcomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 finger | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 finger | det |
| 19 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looking | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sat | cc |
| 21 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ceased | conj |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 sat | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the old woman | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the robbers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent robber=Topic | |||||
| 3 | cease | past | robbers = robber | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | look | gerund | robbers = robber not said here | for the finger | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for finger=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sit down | past | robbers = robber 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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