Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 21
This servant was equally alarmed, and he got out as fast as he could.
Who acts: servant · What happens: alarm, get out · To what, where: servant
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Doctor Knowall. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 servant | det |
| 2 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 4 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 5 alarmed | advmod |
| 5 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 got | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 got | nsubj |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 alarmed | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 got | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 fast | advmod |
| 12 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 got | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 could | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 could | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 fast | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 alarmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alarm | past · passive | this servant | equally property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | get out | past | servant | fast, out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «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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