Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 3
After he had travelled a little way, he spied a dog lying by the roadside and panting as if he were tired.
Who acts: ass, dog · What happens: travell, spy, lie, be · To what, where: little way, dog
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: who acts (ass, dog), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 travelled | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 travelled | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 travelled | aux |
| 4 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 spied | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 travelled | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 travelled | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spied | nsubj |
| 10 | spied | spy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 dog | det |
| 12 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spied | obj |
| 13 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 dog | acl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 roadside | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 roadside | det |
| 16 | roadside | roadside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lying | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 panting | cc |
| 18 | panting | panting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 roadside | conj |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 tired | mark |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 tired | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 tired | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 tired | cop |
| 23 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lying | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 spied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travell | past · perfect | ass | a little way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spy | past | ass | a dog | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | a dog not said here | by the roadside and panting | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by roadside=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | ass | tired property | 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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