Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 6
It would have been all over with the poor girl if she had not just then been standing in a corner, and heard everything.
Who acts: stepsister, woman · What happens: be, not stand, hear · To what, where: poor girl, corner, everything
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 (stepsister, woman), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 over | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 over | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 over | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 over | cop |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 over | advmod |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 24 heard | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 girl | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 girl | amod |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 over | obl |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 standing | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 standing | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 standing | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 standing | advmod |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 standing | advmod |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 standing | advmod |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 standing | aux |
| 18 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 girl | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 corner | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 corner | det |
| 21 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 standing | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 heard | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 heard | cc |
| 24 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 24 heard | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would · perfect | stepsister | with the poor girl; all, over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not stand a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · progressive | woman | the poor girl not said here | a corner | then | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme in corner=Destination | ||
| 3 | hear | past | everything | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer everything=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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