Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 27
On this the servants looked terribly uneasy, and made a sign to the doctor that they wished him to step outside for a moment.
Who acts: crabs · What happens: look, make, wish, step · To what, where: sign, doctor
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 (crabs), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 servants | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 On | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 servants | det |
| 4 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looked | obl |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 7 uneasy | advmod |
| 7 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 looked | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sign | det |
| 12 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 doctor | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 doctor | det |
| 15 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 wished | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wished | nsubj |
| 18 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wished | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 step | mark |
| 21 | step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wished | advcl |
| 22 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 21 step | advmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 moment | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 moment | det |
| 25 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 step | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | on the servants; uneasy property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on servant=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | past | a sign | to the doctor | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product | ||||
| 3 | wish | past | crabs = crab | doctor | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | step | to-infinitive | crabs = crab not said here | moment | outside property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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