Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 24
‘Who is there?’ cried he, but the figure made no reply, and did not move or stir.
Who acts: figure · What happens: cry, make, not move, stir · To what, where: boy, reply
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 (figure), 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 is | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 is | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | aux:pass |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 made | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 figure | det |
| 12 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | nsubj |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | conj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 reply | det |
| 15 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 move | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 move | cc |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 move | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 move | advmod |
| 20 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 stir | cc |
| 22 | stir | stir | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 move | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | present · passive | boy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make | past | the figure | no reply | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset reply=Product | ||||
| 3 | not move | past · do-support | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | stir | infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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