Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 36

She was sadder than ever as she drove along, and said mournfully, ‘I know he has fallen asleep, and will not be able to set me free.’

Who acts: woman, I, man · What happens: be, drive, say, know, fall, not be · To what, where: me · 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, I, 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	3 sadder	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sadder	cop
3	sadder	sad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	SCONJ	_	8 drove	mark
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 drove	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 drove	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 drove	nsubj
8	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sadder	advcl
9	along	along	ADV	_	8 drove	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sadder	conj
13	mournfully	mournfully	ADV	_	12 said	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
17	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sadder	parataxis
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fallen	nsubj
19	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 fallen	aux
20	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 know	ccomp
21	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fallen	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 able	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 able	cc
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 able	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 able	advmod
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 able	cop
27	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 know	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 set	mark
29	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 able	xcomp
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 set	obj
31	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 set	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sadder	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 sadder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	woman			sad property	tree rules
2	drive	past	woman		ever	along property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	woman not said here			mournfully property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	fall	present · perfect	man			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not is	future	I not said here			able property	tree rules
7	set	to-infinitive	I not said here	me		free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result

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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