Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 25
The student looked about everywhere; and seeing no one, and not knowing where the voice came from, cried out, ‘Who calls me?’
Who acts: student, voice · What happens: look, see, not know, come, cry out, call · To what, where: one, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (student, voice), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 student | det |
| 2 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 everywhere | advmod |
| 5 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 looked | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 seeing | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 seeing | cc |
| 8 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 looked | advcl |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seeing | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knowing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 knowing | cc |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 knowing | advmod |
| 14 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 seeing | advcl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 came | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 voice | det |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 knowing | ccomp |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 came | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cried | punct |
| 21 | cried | cry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 seeing | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 cried | compound:prt |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 calls | punct |
| 24 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 calls | punct |
| 25 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 calls | nsubj |
| 26 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 calls | obj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 26 calls | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 calls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the student | everywhere property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | the student not said here | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not know | gerund | the student not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | come | past | the voice | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | cry out speech: express | participle | the student not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | call | present | me | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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