Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 26
The witch fell into a passion, sprang to the window, and as she could look forth quite far into the world, she perceived her stepdaughter hurrying away with her sweetheart Roland.
Who acts: witch · What happens: fall, spring, look, perceive, hurry away · To what, where: passion, window, stepdaughter
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 (witch), 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 witch | det |
| 2 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 passion | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 passion | det |
| 6 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sprang | punct |
| 8 | sprang | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 fell | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 window | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 window | det |
| 11 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sprang | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 perceived | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 perceived | cc |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 look | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 look | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 look | aux |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 perceived | advcl |
| 18 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 17 look | advmod |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 far | advmod |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 look | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 far | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 look | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 perceived | nsubj |
| 26 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 stepdaughter | nmod:poss |
| 28 | stepdaughter | stepdaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 perceived | obj |
| 29 | hurrying | hurry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 perceived | advcl |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 hurrying | advmod |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 sweetheart | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 sweetheart | nmod:poss |
| 33 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hurrying | obl |
| 34 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 sweetheart | appos |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the witch | into a passion result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into passion=Result | ||||
| 2 | spring | gerund | the witch not said here | the window | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to window=Destination | ||||
| 3 | look | could | witch | far, forth property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | perceive | past | witch | woman's stepdaughter | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer stepdaughter=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | hurry away | gerund | witch not said here | with woman's sweetheart; away property | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with sweetheart=Eventuality |
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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