Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 122
Then he looked round and saw a great bed in the corner.
Who acts: other · What happens: look round, see · To what, where: great bed, corner
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 saw | cc |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bed | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bed | amod |
| 9 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 corner | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 corner | det |
| 12 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look round | past | other | then | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | see | past | other not said here | a great bed | the corner | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bed=Stimulus |
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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