Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 10
In the garden behind the house is a large tan-heap, and on that you must stand and watch for me.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, stand, watch · To what, where: large tan heap, garden
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 garden | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 garden | det |
| 3 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heap | obl |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 garden | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 heap | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 heap | det |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 heap | amod |
| 10 | tan | tan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heap | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 tan | punct |
| 12 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stand | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stand | cc |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 on | fixed |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 stand | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 stand | aux |
| 19 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 heap | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 watch | cc |
| 21 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 stand | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 watch | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 heap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a large tan heap | the garden behind the house | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | must | you | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | watch | infinitive | you not said here | for me | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for i=Theme |
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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