Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 16
She ran to the window, to see if the master was not coming with his guest, but she saw no one, and went back to the fowls and thought: ‘One of the wings is burning!
Who acts: Gretel, master, One · What happens: run, see, not come, go back, think, burn · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gretel, master, One), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 window | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 window | det |
| 5 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ran | conj |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 coming | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 master | det |
| 11 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coming | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 coming | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 coming | advmod |
| 14 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 see | advcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 guest | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 guest | nmod:poss |
| 17 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coming | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 saw | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 one | det |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | parataxis |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 went | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 fowls | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 fowls | det |
| 30 | fowls | fowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 went | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 thought | cc |
| 32 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 went | conj |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 One | punct |
| 34 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 One | punct |
| 35 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 burning | nsubj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 wings | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 wings | det |
| 38 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 One | nmod |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 burning | aux |
| 40 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 thought | ccomp |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Gretel | to the window result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to window=Result | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Gretel not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not come a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | the master | with master's guest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Gretel | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | go back | past | to the fowls result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to fowl=Result | |||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | burn | present · progressive | One of the wings | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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