--- title: By and by she looked up and saw a Woman standing by, who asked, "Why… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: By and by she looked up and saw a Woman standing by, who asked, "Why are you weeping, Two-Eyes?" " Who acts: sister, Woman, you. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimm's Fairy Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/) / [Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/) / 6 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 6 By and by she looked up and saw a Woman standing by, who asked, "Why are you weeping, Two-Eyes?" " **Who acts:** sister, Woman, you · **What happens:** look up, see, stand by, ask, weep · **To what, where:** Two Eyes · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, Woman, you), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11027:25:6 # text = By and by she looked up and saw a Woman standing by, who asked, "Why are you weeping, Two-Eyes?" " 1 By by SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 3 by by SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 11 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 weeping weep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ? ? PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look up** | past | sister | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **see** | past | sister *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **stand by** | gerund | a Woman *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | a Woman | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **weep** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you | Two Eyes | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/7/) - ↑ back to [Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/)