Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 26
Towards two o’clock he went into the garden and on to the tan-heap to watch for the raven.
Who acts: two o’clock · What happens: go, watch · To what, where: 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 (two o’clock), 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 | Towards | towards | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 o’clock | nummod |
| 3 | o’clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 heap | cc |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 15 heap | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 heap | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heap | det |
| 13 | tan | tan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heap | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 tan | punct |
| 15 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 watch | mark |
| 17 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 heap | acl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 raven | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 raven | det |
| 20 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 watch | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | two o’clock | the garden | towards property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | watch | to-infinitive | two o’clock not said here | for the raven | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for raven=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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