Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 49
At length, when it was quite dark, Clever Elsie awoke and when she got up there was a jingling all round about her, and the bells rang at each step which she took.
Who acts: length, Clever, bells, step · What happens: be, awake, get up, jingle, ring, take · To what, where: length
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 (length, Clever, bells, step), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dark | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 dark | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dark | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dark | cop |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 dark | advmod |
| 8 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 awoke | punct |
| 10 | Clever | Clever | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 awoke | nsubj |
| 11 | Elsie | Elsie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Clever | flat |
| 12 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dark | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 got | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 got | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 got | nsubj |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 awoke | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADV | _ | 16 got | advmod |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 got | advmod |
| 19 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dark | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 was | det |
| 21 | jingling | jingle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 a | acl |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 round | advmod |
| 23 | round | round | ADV | _ | 21 jingling | advmod |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 round | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 rang | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 rang | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bells | det |
| 29 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 rang | nsubj |
| 30 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 jingling | advcl |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 step | case |
| 32 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 step | det |
| 33 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rang | obl |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 took | nsubj |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 took | nsubj |
| 36 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 step | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dark | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | length | length | dark property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | awake | past | Clever | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get up | past | Clever | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | be | past | length not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | jingle | gerund | round property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | ring | past | the bells | at each step | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at step=Location | ||||
| 7 | take | past | each step | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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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