Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, sentence 24
When they came in, they wanted to eat and drink, and looked for their little plates and glasses.
Who acts: masters · What happens: come in, want, eat, drink, look
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 (masters), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wanted | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wanted | nsubj |
| 7 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 eat | mark |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wanted | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drink | cc |
| 11 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 eat | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looked | cc |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wanted | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 plates | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 plates | nmod:poss |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 plates | amod |
| 18 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 looked | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 glasses | cc |
| 20 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 plates | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | masters = master | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | want | past | masters = master | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | masters = master not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drink | infinitive | masters = master not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | look | past | masters = master not said here | for masters's little plates and glasses | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for plate=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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