Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 21
They are perhaps not coming at all, and have turned in somewhere.’
Who acts: wings · What happens: not come, turn · To what, where: all
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 (wings), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 coming | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 coming | aux |
| 3 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 coming | advmod |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 coming | advmod |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 coming | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 turned | cc |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 turned | aux |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 coming | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 somewhere | case |
| 13 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 turned | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 coming | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come | present · progressive | wings = wing | all | perhaps property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location | |||
| 2 | turn | present · perfect | wings = wing not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in somewhere=Trajectory |
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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