Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 3
So he remained standing a while, and at length inquired if he too could not be a doctor.
Who acts: heart · What happens: remain, stand, inquire, not be · To what, where: length, 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 (heart), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 remained | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 remained | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 while | det |
| 6 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 standing | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 inquired | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 inquired | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 length | case |
| 10 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 inquired | obl |
| 11 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 remained | conj |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 doctor | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 doctor | nsubj |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 doctor | advmod |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 doctor | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 doctor | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 doctor | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 doctor | det |
| 19 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 inquired | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | heart | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | heart not said here | while | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | participle | heart not said here | length | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not is a a condition, not said to happen | could | heart | a doctor | 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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