Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 21
He saw very well that he could not escape death.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: see, not escape · To what, where: death · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 well | advmod |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 saw | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 escape | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 escape | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 escape | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 escape | advmod |
| 9 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 escape | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | soldier | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not escape | could | soldier | death | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme death=Initial_Location |
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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