Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 14
‘She is sitting in her room, Moaning in her gloom, Weeping her little eyes quite red, Because old Mr Fox is dead.’
Who acts: guest, old Mr Fox · What happens: sit, moan, weep, be · To what, where: room, little eyes
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, First Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guest, old Mr Fox), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 sitting | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sitting | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sitting | aux |
| 4 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 room | nmod:poss |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sitting | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Moaning | punct |
| 9 | Moaning | moan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sitting | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 gloom | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 gloom | nmod:poss |
| 12 | gloom | gloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Moaning | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Weeping | punct |
| 14 | Weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sitting | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eyes | amod |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Weeping | obj |
| 18 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 19 red | advmod |
| 19 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Weeping | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 dead | punct |
| 21 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 26 dead | mark |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Fox | amod |
| 23 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Fox | compound |
| 24 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dead | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 dead | cop |
| 26 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sitting | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sitting | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present · progressive | guest | guest's room | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location | ||||
| 2 | moan | gerund | guest not said here | in guest's gloom | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in gloom=Theme | ||||
| 3 | weep | gerund | guest not said here | guest's little eyes | red property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | present | old Mr Fox | dead property | tree rules |
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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