Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 61
‘I went on through the house from room to room, but they were all empty, and everything was so grim and mysterious.
Who acts: I, darling, everything · What happens: go on, be · To what, where: house
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 (I, darling, everything), 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 | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 room | case |
| 11 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 room | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 empty | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 empty | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 empty | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 empty | cop |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 empty | advmod |
| 17 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grim | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 grim | cc |
| 20 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 23 grim | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 grim | cop |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 grim | advmod |
| 23 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 empty | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 mysterious | cc |
| 25 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 grim | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | I | the house from room to room | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through house=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | darling | all, empty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | everything | grim property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | everything not said here | 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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