Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 22
When she entered the garden, there she found him as she had feared, lying on the tan-heap, fast asleep.
Who acts: woman · What happens: enter, find, fear, lie · To what, where: garden, man, tan heap
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 (woman), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 entered | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 garden | det |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 found | expl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | obj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 feared | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 feared | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 feared | aux |
| 14 | feared | fear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 found | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lying | punct |
| 16 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 feared | advcl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 heap | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 heap | det |
| 19 | tan | tan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heap | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 tan | punct |
| 21 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lying | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 asleep | punct |
| 23 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 asleep | advmod |
| 24 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 heap | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | woman | the garden | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme garden=Destination | ||||
| 2 | find | past | woman | man | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 3 | fear | past · perfect | woman | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | lie | gerund | woman not said here | the tan heap | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on heap=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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