Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 6
Therefore one son travelled towards the east, and the second went to the west, both making fun of poor Dummling, who was obliged to stay where his feather had fallen.
Who acts: one son, second, feather · What happens: travel, go, make, oblige, stay, fall · To what, where: east, making fun, west
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one son, second, feather), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 travelled | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 son | nummod |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 travelled | nsubj |
| 4 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 7 east | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 east | det |
| 7 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 travelled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 second | det |
| 11 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 travelled | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 west | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 west | det |
| 15 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fun | punct |
| 17 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 fun | det |
| 18 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 fun | amod |
| 19 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Dummling | case |
| 21 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Dummling | amod |
| 22 | Dummling | Dummling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 fun | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 obliged | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 obliged | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 obliged | aux:pass |
| 26 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 fun | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 stay | mark |
| 28 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 obliged | xcomp |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 33 fallen | advmod |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 feather | nmod:poss |
| 31 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fallen | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 fallen | aux |
| 33 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 stay | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | one son | the east | therefore property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards east=Destination | |||
| 2 | go | past | the second | both making fun of poor Dummling | the west | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to west=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | make | gerund | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 4 | oblige | past · passive | both making fun of poor Dummling | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 5 | stay | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | fall | past · perfect | Dummling's feather | vn occur-48.3 «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: «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.
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