Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 39

‘I will soon find out where she is, however,’ said the star-gazer, as he looked through his glass; and he soon cried out, ‘I see her afar off, sitting upon a rock in the sea, and I can spy the dragon close by, guarding her.’

Who acts: I, princess, king · What happens: find out, be, say, look, cry out, see · To what, where: star gazer, sea, dragon, princess · 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 (I, princess, king), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 find	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 find	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 find	advmod
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 find	compound:prt
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 is	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 is	nsubj
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 find	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
11	however	however	ADV	_	14 said	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 however	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 find	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gazer	det
16	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gazer	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 star	punct
18	gazer	gazer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 looked	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 looked	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 looked	nsubj
22	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
23	through	through	ADP	_	25 glass	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 glass	nmod:poss
25	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 looked	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 cried	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cried	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 cried	nsubj
29	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 cried	advmod
30	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 cried	compound:prt
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 see	punct
33	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 see	punct
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 see	nsubj
35	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 cried	conj
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 afar	nmod:poss
37	afar	afar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 see	ccomp
38	off	off	ADP	_	37 afar	compound:prt
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sitting	punct
40	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 cried	advcl
41	upon	upon	ADP	_	43 rock	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 rock	det
43	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sitting	obl
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 sea	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 sea	det
46	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sitting	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 spy	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 spy	cc
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 spy	nsubj
50	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 spy	aux
51	spy	spy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 cried	conj
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 dragon	det
53	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 spy	obj
54	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 dragon	amod
55	by	by	ADP	_	54 close	fixed
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 guarding	punct
57	guarding	guard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	51 spy	advcl
58	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 guarding	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 find	punct
60	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	find out	future	I				soon property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	present	princess					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past		the star gazer			however property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gazer=Topic
4	look	past	king				through king's glass	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through glass=Theme
5	cry out speech: express	past	king				soon property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	see	present	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	sit	gerund	king not said here			the sea	upon a rock	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon rock=Location
8	spy	can	I	the dragon				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dragon=Stimulus
9	guard	gerund	I not said here		princess			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

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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