Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 23

She got out of her carriage and went to him; she called him and shook him, but it was all in vain, he still continued sleeping.

Who acts: woman, carriage, man · What happens: get out, go, call, shake, be, continue · To what, where: carriage, man · 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 (woman, carriage, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 carriage	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 carriage	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 carriage	nmod:poss
6	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 went	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 called	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 called	nsubj
13	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 called	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shook	cc
16	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 called	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 shook	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 vain	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 vain	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 vain	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 vain	cop
22	all	all	ADV	_	24 vain	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 vain	case
24	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 continued	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 continued	nsubj
27	still	still	ADV	_	28 continued	advmod
28	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 vain	parataxis
29	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 continued	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	get out	past	woman	woman's carriage				tree rules
2	go	past	woman not said here		man			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
3	call	past	woman		man			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	shake	past	woman not said here	man				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	is	past	carriage				all, vain property	tree rules
6	continue	past	man			still		vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	sleep	gerund	man not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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