Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 13

There they saw a little grey old man sitting at a table; and they called to him once or twice, but he did not hear: however, they called a third time, and then he rose and came out to them.

Who acts: brother, little grey old man, man · What happens: see, sit, call, not hear, rise, come out · To what, where: little grey old man, table, man, third time, brother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Queen Bee. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, little grey old man, man), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 saw	expl
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
6	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
9	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 man	acl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 table	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 table	det
12	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 called	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 called	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 called	nsubj
16	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 called	obl
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 called	advmod
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 twice	cc
21	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 once	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hear	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 hear	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hear	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 hear	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 hear	advmod
27	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saw	conj
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 called	punct
29	however	however	ADV	_	32 called	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 however	punct
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 called	nsubj
32	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 hear	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 time	det
34	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	35 time	amod
35	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 called	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 rose	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 rose	cc
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 rose	advmod
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 rose	nsubj
40	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 came	cc
42	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 rose	conj
43	out	out	ADV	_	42 came	advmod
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 came	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	brother	a little grey old man		there			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
2	sit	gerund	a little grey old man not said here			a table			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location
3	call	past	brother		man			once property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	not hear	past · do-support	man						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	call	past	brother	a third time				however property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	rise	past	man				then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	come out	past	man not said here		brother			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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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