Grimms' Fairy Tales, Second Story, sentence 10
‘She sits upstairs in her room, Bewailing her sorrowful doom, Bewailing her trouble so sore, For old Mr Fox is no more.’
Who acts: Mrs, Bewailing · What happens: sit, bewail, not be, doom, trouble · To what, where: room, sorrowful doom, trouble
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Second Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mrs, Bewailing), 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 | _ | 3 sits | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sits | nsubj |
| 3 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 3 sits | advmod |
| 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 | 3 sits | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Bewailing | punct |
| 9 | Bewailing | bewail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 more | csubj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 doom | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 doom | amod |
| 12 | doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Bewailing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Bewailing | punct |
| 14 | Bewailing | bewail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 Bewailing | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 16 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Bewailing | obj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 sore | advmod |
| 18 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Bewailing | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Fox | punct |
| 20 | For | for | ADP | _ | 23 Fox | case |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Fox | amod |
| 22 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Fox | compound |
| 23 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Bewailing | obl |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 more | cop |
| 25 | no | no | ADV | _ | 26 more | advmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 sits | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sits | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | Mrs | Mrs's room | upstairs property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location | |||
| 2 | bewail | gerund | Mrs's sorrowful doom | for old Mr Fox | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer doom=Stimulus for fox=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | bewail | gerund | Mrs's trouble | sore property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trouble=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not is | present | Bewailing | more property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | doom | Mrs | nom doom «event transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | trouble | Mrs | nom trouble «cognition 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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