Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 214
When it was at an end, he would have held her fast by the hand, but she slipped away, and sprang so quickly through the crowd that he lost sight of her: and she ran as fast as she could into her little cabin under the stairs.
Who acts: room, dance, king · What happens: be, hold, slip away, spring, lose, run · To what, where: end, dance, crowd, sight, little cabin
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room, dance, king), 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 | 6 end | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 end | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 end | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 end | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 end | det |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 held | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 end | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 would | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 held | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 held | aux |
| 11 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 held | obj |
| 13 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 held | advmod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hand | det |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 held | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 slipped | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 slipped | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 slipped | nsubj |
| 20 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 held | parataxis |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 slipped | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sprang | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sprang | cc |
| 24 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 slipped | conj |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 quickly | advmod |
| 26 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 24 sprang | advmod |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 29 crowd | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 crowd | det |
| 29 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sprang | obl |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 lost | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 lost | nsubj |
| 32 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sprang | advcl |
| 33 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lost | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 her | case |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 sight | nmod |
| 36 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 39 ran | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 ran | cc |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 ran | nsubj |
| 39 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 slipped | conj |
| 40 | as | as | ADV | _ | 41 fast | advmod |
| 41 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 ran | advmod |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 could | mark |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 could | nsubj |
| 44 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 fast | advcl |
| 45 | into | into | ADP | _ | 48 cabin | case |
| 46 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 cabin | nmod:poss |
| 47 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 cabin | amod |
| 48 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 ran | obl |
| 49 | under | under | ADP | _ | 51 stairs | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 stairs | det |
| 51 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 ran | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | room | at a end | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | would · perfect | dance | by the hand; fast property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme by hand=Location | ||||
| 3 | slip away | past | dance | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | spring | past | dance not said here | the crowd | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through crowd=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | lose | past | king | sight of dance | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | run | past | dance | into dance's little cabin result; under the stairs; fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into cabin=Result | ||||
| 7 | sight | dance | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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