Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 35
At two o’clock the raven could be seen approaching, and this time her coachman and everything about her, as well as her horses, were black.
Who acts: raven, coachman · What happens: see, approach, be · To what, where: raven, two o’clock
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, coachman), 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 | 8 seen | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 raven | det |
| 5 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seen | aux:pass |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 seen | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 black | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 black | cc |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 black | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 coachman | nmod:poss |
| 15 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 black | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 everything | cc |
| 17 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 coachman | conj |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 everything | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 horses | punct |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 25 horses | cc |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 as | fixed |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 as | fixed |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 horses | nmod:poss |
| 25 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 coachman | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 coachman | punct |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 black | cop |
| 28 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 seen | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could · passive | the raven | two o’clock | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | approach | gerund | the raven not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | woman's coachman as woman's horses | time | black property | tree rules |
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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