Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, sentence 19
As she went in, a little dwarf came up to her, and said, ‘What are you seeking for?’
Who acts: girl, little dwarf, you · What happens: go in, come up, say, seek · To what, where: girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Seven Ravens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, little dwarf, you), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dwarf | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dwarf | amod |
| 8 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seeking | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 seeking | punct |
| 18 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 seeking | obj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 seeking | aux |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 seeking | nsubj |
| 21 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 said | ccomp |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 seeking | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 seeking | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 seeking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | girl | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come up | past | a little dwarf | girl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a little dwarf not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | seek | present · progressive | you | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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