Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 62
As they came near the brook they saw something like a large grasshopper jumping towards the water, as if it were going to leap in.
Who acts: roses, large grasshopper, water · What happens: come, see, jump, go, leap in · To what, where: brook, something, water
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 (roses, large grasshopper, water), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 brook | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brook | det |
| 6 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brook | acl:relcl |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 saw | obj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 grasshopper | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 grasshopper | det |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grasshopper | amod |
| 13 | grasshopper | grasshopper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 something | nmod |
| 14 | jumping | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 grasshopper | acl |
| 15 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 water | det |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 jumping | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 going | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 going | mark |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 going | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 going | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 going | aux |
| 23 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 jumping | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 leap | mark |
| 25 | leap | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 going | xcomp |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 leap | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | roses = rose | the brook | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near brook=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | roses = rose | something | like a large grasshopper | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | jump | gerund | a large grasshopper not said here | the water | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards water=Destination | ||||
| 4 | go a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | water | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | leap in | to-infinitive | water not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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