Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 90
The dwarf sprang up in a fright, but he could not reach his cave, for the bear was already close.
Who acts: dwarf, bear · What happens: spring up, not reach, be · To what, where: fright, cave
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 (dwarf, 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 dwarf | det |
| 2 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 sprang | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 fright | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fright | det |
| 7 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reach | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 reach | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reach | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 reach | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 reach | advmod |
| 13 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sprang | parataxis |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 cave | nmod:poss |
| 15 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reach | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 close | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 close | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bear | det |
| 19 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 close | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 close | cop |
| 21 | already | already | ADV | _ | 22 close | advmod |
| 22 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 reach | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | the dwarf | a fright | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fright=Location | ||||
| 2 | not reach | could | bear | bear's cave | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cave=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the bear | close 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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