Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 15
The maid went and found her sitting in front of the barrel, screaming loudly.
Who acts: maid · What happens: go, find, sit, scream · To what, where: maid, front
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid), 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 maid | det |
| 2 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 found | cc |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | obj |
| 7 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 found | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 front | case |
| 9 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sitting | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 barrel | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 barrel | det |
| 12 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 front | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 screaming | punct |
| 14 | screaming | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 sitting | conj |
| 15 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 14 screaming | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the maid | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | the maid not said here | maid | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit | gerund | maid not said here | front of the barrel | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location | ||||
| 4 | scream speech: express | gerund | maid not said here | loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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