Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 28
The ass, being the tallest of the company, marched up to the window and peeped in.
What happens: be, march up, peep in · To what, where: ass, window
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Travelling Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ass | det |
| 2 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 marched | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tallest | punct |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 tallest | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tallest | det |
| 6 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 ass | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 company | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 company | det |
| 9 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tallest | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 marched | punct |
| 11 | marched | march | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 marched | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 window | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 window | det |
| 15 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 marched | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 peeped | cc |
| 17 | peeped | peep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 marched | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 peeped | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 marched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | of the company; tall property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | march up | participle · passive | the ass | the window | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to window=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | peep in | participle | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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