Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 75
‘God be with you,’ he cried again, and again they paused and looked about, but seeing no one went back to their fighting.
Who acts: God, robbers, seeing · What happens: be, cry, pause, look, see, go back · To what, where: one
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 (God, robbers, seeing), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 God | punct |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 you | cop |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 God | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 you | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 God | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 cried | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 paused | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 paused | cc |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 paused | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 paused | nsubj |
| 15 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 paused | conj |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 looked | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 21 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 went | csubj |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 one | det |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seeing | obj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | conj |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 went | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 fighting | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 fighting | nmod:poss |
| 28 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | with you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | God | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | pause | past | robbers = robber | again | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | look | past | robbers = robber not said here | about property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | see | gerund | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | go back | past | seeing | to robbers's fighting result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to fighting=Result | ||||
| 7 | fight | robbers = robber | nom fighting «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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