Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 44
When twelve o’clock had struck, the door sprang open, and the manikin carried in the princess.
Who acts: door · What happens: strike, spring, carry · To what, where: twelve o’clock, manikin
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 (door), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 struck | mark |
| 2 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 o’clock | nummod |
| 3 | o’clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 struck | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 struck | aux |
| 5 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sprang | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 struck | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sprang | nsubj |
| 9 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sprang | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 carried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 carried | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 manikin | det |
| 14 | manikin | manikin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sprang | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 princess | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 princess | det |
| 18 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carried | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past · perfect · passive | twelve o’clock | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | spring | past | the door | open property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | participle · passive | the manikin | in the princess | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in princess=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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