Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 39
Then Roland went away, and the girl stood like a red landmark in the field and waited for her beloved.
Who acts: Roland, girl · What happens: go away, stand, wait · To what, where: field
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 (Roland, girl), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stood | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 landmark | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 landmark | det |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 landmark | amod |
| 13 | landmark | landmark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 field | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 field | det |
| 16 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 waited | cc |
| 18 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 beloved | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 beloved | nmod:poss |
| 21 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 waited | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | Roland | then | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | past | the girl | the field | like a red landmark | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in field=Location | |||
| 3 | wait | past | Roland not said here | for girl's beloved | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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