Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 31
The fifth servant, however, crept into the stove to hear if the doctor knew still more.
Who acts: doctor · What happens: creep, hear, know · To what, where: fifth servant, stove, more
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 (doctor), 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 | 3 servant | det |
| 2 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 servant | amod |
| 3 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crept | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 servant | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 crept | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 stove | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stove | det |
| 10 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crept | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 hear | mark |
| 12 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 crept | advcl |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 knew | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 doctor | det |
| 15 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knew | nsubj |
| 16 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hear | ccomp |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 more | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 knew | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | the fifth servant | the stove | however property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into stove=Destination | |||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | know a condition, not said to happen | past | the doctor | more | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
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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