Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 57
Now the cook lay in the next room; and hearing a noise she raised herself up in her bed and listened.
Who acts: cook · What happens: lie, hear, raise up, listen · To what, where: next room, noise, cook, bed
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 (cook), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 lay | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cook | det |
| 3 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 room | det |
| 7 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 room | amod |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 hearing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hearing | cc |
| 11 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 lay | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 noise | det |
| 13 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hearing | obj |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 raised | nsubj |
| 15 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hearing | parataxis |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 raised | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 raised | compound:prt |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 bed | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 bed | nmod:poss |
| 20 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 raised | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 listened | cc |
| 22 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 raised | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the cook | the next room | now | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location | |||
| 2 | hear | gerund | the cook not said here | a noise | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | raise up | past | cook | cook | cook's bed | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in bed=Destination | |||
| 4 | listen | past | cook not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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