Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 21

At two o’clock the raven came driving along, drawn by her four white horses; but even before she reached the spot, she said to herself, sighing, ‘I know he has fallen asleep.’

Who acts: raven, woman, I, man · What happens: come, drive, draw, reach, say, sigh · To what, where: two o’clock, spot, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (raven, woman, I, 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 o’clock	case
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 o’clock	nummod
3	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 raven	det
5	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	driving	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 came	xcomp
8	along	along	ADV	_	7 driving	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 drawn	punct
10	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 driving	advcl
11	by	by	ADP	_	15 horses	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 horses	nmod:poss
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 horses	nummod
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 horses	amod
15	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 drawn	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 reached	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 reached	cc
18	even	even	ADV	_	21 reached	advmod
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 reached	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 reached	nsubj
21	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 spot	det
23	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 reached	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 herself	case
28	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 said	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sighing	punct
30	sighing	sigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 said	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 know	punct
32	‘	'	PUNCT	_	34 know	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 know	nsubj
34	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 sighing	conj
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 fallen	nsubj
36	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 fallen	aux
37	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 know	ccomp
38	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 fallen	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the raven			two o’clock		tree rules
2	drive	gerund	the raven not said here				along property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	draw	participle	the raven not said here				by woman's four white horses	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	reach	past	woman	the spot				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent spot=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	woman		woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient
6	sigh	gerund	woman not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	know	present	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	fall	present · perfect	man				asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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