Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 73
Looking out from his hut one day he saw three robbers fighting and he called out to them, ‘God be with you.’
Who acts: castle, three robbers, God · What happens: look out, see, fight, call out, be · To what, where: hut, robbers · 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 (castle, three robbers, God), 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 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 saw | advcl |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Looking | compound:prt |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 hut | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hut | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 day | nummod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 robbers | nummod |
| 11 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fighting | nsubj |
| 12 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 saw | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 called | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 called | nsubj |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 called | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 called | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 you | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 you | punct |
| 21 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 you | nsubj |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 you | cop |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 called | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | gerund | castle not said here | castle's hut | day | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | see | past | castle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | fight | gerund | three robbers | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | call out speech: assert | past | castle | robbers = robber | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is | infinitive | God | with you | 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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