Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 101
then he looked up and the last one had left off work.
Who acts: father, last one · What happens: look up, leave off · To what, where: work
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, last one), 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 | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 looked | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 left | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | aux |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 looked | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 work | case |
| 12 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | father | then | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | leave off | past · perfect | the last one | work | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme |
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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