Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 20
Soon after he set out boldly on his travels; and, as he was light and active, he felt no fatigue.
Who acts: world · What happens: set out, travel, be, feel · To what, where: fatigue
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 set | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 set | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 set | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 9 travels | mark |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 travels | nmod:poss |
| 9 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | advcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 felt | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 felt | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 and | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 light | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 light | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 light | cop |
| 16 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 felt | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 active | cc |
| 18 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 light | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 light | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 felt | nsubj |
| 21 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | conj |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 fatigue | det |
| 23 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 felt | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | world | boldly, soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | travel | present | world not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | world | light property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | world not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | feel | past | world | no fatigue | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fatigue=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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