Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 32
But the doctor sat still and opened his A B C book, turned the pages backwards and forwards, and looked for the cock.
Who acts: doctor · What happens: sit, open, turn, look · To what, where: C book, pages
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 sat | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 doctor | det |
| 3 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 sat | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 opened | cc |
| 7 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 book | nmod:poss |
| 9 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 book | det |
| 10 | B | B | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 C | compound |
| 11 | C | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 book | compound |
| 12 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opened | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pages | det |
| 16 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 turned | obj |
| 17 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 14 turned | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 forwards | cc |
| 19 | forwards | forwards | ADV | _ | 17 backwards | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 looked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 looked | cc |
| 22 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 cock | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cock | det |
| 25 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 looked | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the doctor | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | open | past | the doctor not said here | doctor's C book | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | the doctor not said here | the pages | backwards property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent page=Theme | |||
| 4 | look | past | the doctor not said here | for the cock | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for cock=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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