Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 6
Long after this, a man was making his way through the wood when he heard a raven calling, and he followed the sound of the voice.
Who acts: man, raven · What happens: make, hear, call, follow · To what, where: way, wood, raven, sound · 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 (man, raven), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 making | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Long | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Long | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 making | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 making | aux |
| 8 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 way | nmod:poss |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 making | obj |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 wood | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wood | det |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 making | obl |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 heard | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 heard | nsubj |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 making | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 raven | det |
| 18 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heard | obj |
| 19 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 raven | acl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 followed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 followed | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 followed | nsubj |
| 23 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 heard | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sound | det |
| 25 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 followed | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 voice | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 voice | det |
| 28 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sound | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 making | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · progressive | a man | man's way | the wood | long property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product | ||
| 2 | hear | past | man | a raven | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer raven=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund | a raven not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | follow | past | man | the sound of the voice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=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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