Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, sentence 31
When the little girl heard this (for she stood behind the door all the time and listened), she ran forward, and in an instant all the ravens took their right form again; and all hugged and kissed each other, and went merrily home.
Who acts: little girl, girl, ravens · What happens: hear, stand, listen, run, take, hug · To what, where: this, door, right form, instant, each
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 (little girl, girl, ravens), 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 | 4 girl | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girl | amod |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 stood | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obl |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 time | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 listened | cc |
| 18 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stood | conj |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 listened | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ran | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ran | nsubj |
| 22 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 23 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 22 ran | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 took | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 took | cc |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 instant | case |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 instant | det |
| 28 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 took | obl |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 ravens | det:predet |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 ravens | det |
| 31 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 instant | nmod |
| 32 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 form | nmod:poss |
| 34 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 form | amod |
| 35 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 took | obj |
| 36 | again | again | ADV | _ | 32 took | advmod |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 hugged | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 hugged | cc |
| 39 | all | all | ADV | _ | 40 hugged | advmod |
| 40 | hugged | hug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | parataxis |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 kissed | cc |
| 42 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 hugged | conj |
| 43 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 42 kissed | obj |
| 44 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 each | fixed |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 went | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 went | cc |
| 47 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 hugged | conj |
| 48 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 47 went | advmod |
| 49 | home | home | ADV | _ | 47 went | advmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the little girl | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | girl | the door | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind door=Location | |||
| 3 | listen | past | girl not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | run | past | girl | forward property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take | past | the little girl not said here | ravens's right form | a instant all ravens | again | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent form=Value in instant=Location | ||
| 6 | hug | past | all property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | kiss | past | each | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent | |||||
| 8 | go | past | home, merrily property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | form | ravens = raven | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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