Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 43
Then his eyes fell on the things which were lying beside him; he read the letter, and knew from it all that had happened.
Who acts: eyes, things, man, that · What happens: fall, lie, read, know, happen · To what, where: things, letter · 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 (eyes, things, man, that), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 fell | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 things | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 things | det |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fell | obl |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lying | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lying | aux |
| 10 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 things | acl:relcl |
| 11 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lying | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 read | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 read | nsubj |
| 15 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 letter | det |
| 17 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 read | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 knew | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 knew | cc |
| 20 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 knew | obl |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 happened | det:predet |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 happened | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 happened | aux |
| 26 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 knew | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | man's eyes | the things | then | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on thing=Location | |||
| 2 | lie | past · progressive | the things | beside man | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location | ||||
| 3 | read | past | man | the letter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Topic | ||||
| 4 | know | past | man's eyes not said here | letter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | happen | past · perfect | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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