Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 32
She sought her children, but they were nowhere to be found.
Who acts: sight · What happens: seek, find · To what, where: children
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sought | nsubj |
| 2 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 children | nmod:poss |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sought | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 found | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 found | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 found | aux:pass |
| 9 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 found | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 found | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 found | aux:pass |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sought | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | sight | sight's children | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past · passive | children = child | nowhere property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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