Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 19
As it drew towards the appointed hour, he went outside into the garden and mounted the tan-heap to await the raven.
Who acts: drink, man · What happens: draw, appoint, go, mount, await · To what, where: garden, tan heap, raven
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 (drink, man), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 drew | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | advcl |
| 4 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 7 hour | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hour | det |
| 6 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hour | amod |
| 7 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 garden | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 garden | det |
| 14 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 mounted | cc |
| 16 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 heap | det |
| 18 | tan | tan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heap | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 tan | punct |
| 20 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mounted | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 await | mark |
| 22 | await | await | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 mounted | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 raven | det |
| 24 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 await | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | drink | hour | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | go | past | man | the garden | outside property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | mount | past | man not said here | the tan heap | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=Patient | ||||
| 5 | await | to-infinitive | man not said here | the raven | tree rules |
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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