Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 32
When he awoke and found that his lady had tricked him, and left him alone on the wild rock, he said, ‘Alas! what roguery there is in the world!’ and there he sat in great grief and fear, not knowing what to do.
Who acts: sleep, roguery · What happens: awake, find, trick, leave, say, be · To what, where: lady, sleep, wild rock, world, great grief · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sleep, roguery), 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 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | advcl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 found | cc |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awoke | conj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 tricked | mark |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lady | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tricked | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tricked | aux |
| 10 | tricked | trick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 found | ccomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tricked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 left | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 left | cc |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awoke | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 left | obj |
| 16 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 14 left | advmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 rock | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rock | det |
| 19 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 rock | amod |
| 20 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | nsubj |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Alas | punct |
| 25 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 Alas | punct |
| 26 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 28 what | discourse |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 Alas | punct |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 said | obj |
| 29 | roguery | roguery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 is | nsubj |
| 30 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 is | expl |
| 31 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 what | acl:relcl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 world | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 world | det |
| 34 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 is | obl |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 sat | cc |
| 38 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 40 sat | expl |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 sat | nsubj |
| 40 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | conj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 grief | case |
| 42 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 grief | amod |
| 43 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sat | obl |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 fear | cc |
| 45 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 grief | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 knowing | punct |
| 47 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 48 knowing | advmod |
| 48 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 sat | advcl |
| 49 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 51 do | obj |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 do | mark |
| 51 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 knowing | xcomp |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | sleep | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | sleep not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | trick | past · perfect · passive | sleep's lady | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | leave | past | sleep not said here | sleep | the wild rock | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme on rock=Location | ||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | sleep | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 6 | be | present | roguery | the world; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location | ||||
| 7 | sit | past | sleep | great grief and fear; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grief=Location | ||||
| 8 | not know | gerund | sleep not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | do | to-infinitive | sleep not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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