Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 52
The poor Soldier had nothing but his musket left; so he mounted this on his shoulder and set out on a tramp.
Who acts: poor Soldier, soldier · What happens: have, leave, mount, set out · To what, where: nothing, musket, this, shoulder, tramp
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor Soldier, soldier), 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 | 3 Soldier | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Soldier | amod |
| 3 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 musket | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 musket | nmod:poss |
| 8 | musket | musket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nothing | conj |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 musket | acl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 mounted | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 mounted | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 mounted | nsubj |
| 13 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | parataxis |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 mounted | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 shoulder | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 17 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mounted | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 set | cc |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 mounted | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 set | compound:prt |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 tramp | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tramp | det |
| 23 | tramp | tramp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the poor Soldier | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | soldier's musket not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | mount | past | soldier | this | soldier's shoulder | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Theme on shoulder=Destination | |||
| 4 | set out | past | soldier not said here | a tramp | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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