Grimms' Fairy Tales, Old Sultan, sentence 22
Sultan and the cat soon came up, and looked about and wondered that no one was there.
Who acts: Sultan, one · What happens: come up, look, wonder, be
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Old Sultan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, one), 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 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 cat | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cat | det |
| 4 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sultan | conj |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 came | advmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 looked | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wondered | cc |
| 13 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looked | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 there | mark |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 there | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 there | cop |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 wondered | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | Sultan and the cat | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Sultan and the cat not said here | about property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | Sultan and the cat not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | no one | there property | 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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