Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 4
Scarcely were the words out of her mouth, when the child in her arms was turned into a raven, and flew away from her through the open window.
Who acts: Scarcely · What happens: be, turn, fly away · To what, where: words, mouth, child, raven, open window
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 (Scarcely), 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 | Scarcely | Scarcely | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 words | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 words | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 mouth | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mouth | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 words | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turned | punct |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 turned | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 child | det |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 arms | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 arms | nmod:poss |
| 15 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 child | nmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 turned | aux:pass |
| 17 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 words | acl |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 raven | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 raven | det |
| 20 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 flew | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 flew | cc |
| 23 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 turned | conj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 flew | advmod |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 flew | obl |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 30 window | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 window | det |
| 29 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 window | amod |
| 30 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flew | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 words | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Scarcely | the words | Scarcely's mouth | tree rules | |||
| 2 | turn | past · passive | the child in Scarcely's arms | a raven | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into raven=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | fly away | past | the open window | from Scarcely; away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location |
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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