Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 79
A waggoner who was striding behind him heard this and asked: ‘Who are you?’
Who acts: waggoner, you · What happens: stride, hear, ask, be · To what, where: this
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 (waggoner, you), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 waggoner | det |
| 2 | waggoner | waggoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 striding | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 striding | aux |
| 5 | striding | stride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 waggoner | acl:relcl |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 striding | obl |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 heard | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Who | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Who | punct |
| 14 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 heard | parataxis |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Who | cop |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 Who | nsubj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stride | past · progressive | a waggoner | behind waggoner | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | a waggoner | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | a waggoner not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | you | 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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