Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 9
The beer ran into the jug and Catherine stood looking on.
Who acts: beer, Catherine · What happens: run, stand, look on · To what, where: jug
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beer, Catherine), 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 beer | det |
| 2 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 jug | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 jug | det |
| 6 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stood | cc |
| 8 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 stood | xcomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 looking | compound:prt |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the beer | the jug | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into jug=Destination | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | Catherine | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | look on | gerund | Catherine not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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