Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 26
The star-gazer took his glass, looked up, and said, ‘Five.’
Who acts: star gazer · What happens: take, look up, say · To what, where: glass · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (star gazer), 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 | 4 gazer | det |
| 2 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gazer | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 star | punct |
| 4 | gazer | gazer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 glass | nmod:poss |
| 7 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 looked | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Five | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 16 Five | punct |
| 16 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 said | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the star gazer | father's glass | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look up | past | the star gazer not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the star gazer not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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