Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 42
The bear ran away quickly, and was soon out of sight behind the trees.
Who acts: bear · What happens: run away, be · To what, where: sight
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bear | det |
| 2 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sight | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sight | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sight | cop |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 sight | advmod |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 sight | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sight | case |
| 12 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 15 trees | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trees | det |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sight | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away | past | the bear | away, quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | sight | behind the trees; soon 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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