Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 3
She grew impatient, and seeing the ravens flying round the castle, she opened the window, and said: ‘I wish you were a raven and would fly away, then I should have a little peace.’
Who acts: mother, ravens, I, you · What happens: grow, see, fly, open, say, wish · To what, where: ravens, castle, window, raven, little peace · 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 (mother, ravens, I, you), 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 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 grew | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 opened | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 opened | cc |
| 6 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 opened | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ravens | det |
| 8 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 seeing | obj |
| 9 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 ravens | acl |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 castle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 castle | det |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flying | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 seeing | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 opened | nsubj |
| 15 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grew | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 window | det |
| 17 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 opened | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grew | parataxis |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 wish | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 wish | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 wish | nsubj |
| 24 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | ccomp |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 raven | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 raven | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 raven | det |
| 28 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wish | ccomp |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 fly | cc |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 fly | aux |
| 31 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 wish | conj |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 fly | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 have | punct |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 have | advmod |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 have | nsubj |
| 36 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 have | aux |
| 37 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 wish | conj |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 peace | det |
| 39 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 peace | amod |
| 40 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 have | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grew | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | mother | impatient property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | mother not said here | the ravens | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer raven=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | the ravens not said here | the castle | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round castle=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | open | past | mother | the window | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 7 | is a | past | you | a raven | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | fly away | would | I not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | have | should | I | a little peace | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient |
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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