Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 80
They ran up and saw with horror that the eagle had seized their old acquaintance the dwarf, and was going to carry him off.
Who acts: needles, horror · What happens: run up, see, seize, go, carry off, acquaint · To what, where: eagle
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 (needles, horror), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 ran | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 horror | case |
| 7 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 seized | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eagle | det |
| 10 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 seized | aux |
| 12 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 horror | acl:relcl |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 acquaintance | nmod:poss |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 acquaintance | amod |
| 15 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seized | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dwarf | det |
| 17 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seized | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 going | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 going | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 going | aux |
| 21 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 ran | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 carry | mark |
| 23 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 going | xcomp |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 carry | obj |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 carry | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | past | needles = needle | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | needles = needle not said here | with horror | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | seize | past · perfect · passive | horror not said here | the eagle | the dwarf obl:unmarked | tree rules | |||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | needles = needle not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | carry off | to-infinitive | needles = needle not said here | eagle | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | acquaint | needles = needle | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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