Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 22
The two strangers were all this time looking on, and did not know what to say for wonder.
Who acts: two strangers · What happens: look on, not know, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two strangers), 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 | 3 strangers | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 strangers | nummod |
| 3 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 looking | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 looking | aux |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 time | det:predet |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looking | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 looking | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 know | cc |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 know | advmod |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 looking | parataxis |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 say | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 say | mark |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 know | ccomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 wonder | case |
| 19 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 say | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look on | past · progressive | the two strangers | time | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | for wonder | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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