Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 32
The guest heard the sharpening, and hurried down the steps again as fast as he could.
Who acts: guest · What happens: hear, sharpen, hurry
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 (guest), 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 | 2 guest | det |
| 2 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sharpening | det |
| 5 | sharpening | sharpen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 heard | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hurried | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hurried | cc |
| 8 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 heard | conj |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 steps | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 steps | det |
| 11 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hurried | obl |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 hurried | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 fast | advmod |
| 14 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 hurried | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 could | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 could | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 fast | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the guest | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | sharpen | gerund | the guest not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | hurry | participle | the guest not said here | again | down the steps; fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down step=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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