Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 54
Hereupon she was terrified, and said: ‘Ah, heavens!
Who acts: Hereupon · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hereupon), 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 | Hereupon | Hereupon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 terrified | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 terrified | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 terrified | cop |
| 4 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 terrified | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 terrified | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 terrified | punct |
| 10 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 terrified | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heavens | punct |
| 12 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 terrified | conj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 terrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Hereupon | terrified property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Hereupon not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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