Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 28
At last he looked round, and saw that the cart was dripping, and the cask quite empty.
Who acts: harm, cart · What happens: look round, see, drip · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harm, cart), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADV | _ | 4 looked | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 dripping | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cart | det |
| 11 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dripping | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dripping | aux |
| 13 | dripping | drip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 saw | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 empty | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 empty | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cask | det |
| 17 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 empty | nsubj |
| 18 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 19 empty | advmod |
| 19 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 looked | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look round | past | harm | at last; round property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at last=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | harm not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | drip | past · progressive | the cart | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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