Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 36
Then you may imagine how she wept over her poor children.
Who acts: you, sight · What happens: imagine, weep
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 (you, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 imagine | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 imagine | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 imagine | aux |
| 4 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 wept | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wept | nsubj |
| 7 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 imagine | ccomp |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 children | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 children | nmod:poss |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 children | amod |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wept | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | may | you | then | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | weep | past | sight | over sight's poor children | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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