Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 18

The old woman went out, but saw no one on the stairs, and cried again: ‘Where are you?’

Who acts: old woman, you · What happens: go out, see, cry, be · To what, where: one, stairs

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, you), 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	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 went	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 saw	cc
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 stairs	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stairs	det
13	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cried	cc
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
17	again	again	ADV	_	16 cried	advmod
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 Where	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 Where	punct
20	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 cried	obl
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 Where	cop
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 Where	nsubj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	the old woman					vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	the old woman not said here	no one	the stairs			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
3	cry speech: express	past	the old woman not said here			again		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	you				where property	tree rules

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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