Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 2
Nothing was hidden from him, and it seemed as if news of the most secret things was brought to him through the air.
Who acts: it · What happens: hide, seem, bring · To what, where: Nothing, news, king, air
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hidden | aux:pass |
| 3 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hidden | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seemed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seemed | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seemed | nsubj |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hidden | conj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 brought | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 brought | mark |
| 12 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 things | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 things | det |
| 15 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 16 secret | advmod |
| 16 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 things | amod |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 news | nmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 brought | aux:pass |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 seemed | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 brought | obl |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 air | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 air | det |
| 24 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past · passive | Nothing | from king | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | bring a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | news of the secret things | king | the air | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination |
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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