Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 53

By and by he came to a great heath with nothing on it but a circle of trees, under which he sat down, sorrowfully considering his fate. "

Who acts: soldier · What happens: come, sit down, consider, fate · To what, where: great heath, fate

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 (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	By	by	SCONJ	_	23 sat	mark
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sat	cc
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sat	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 heath	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 heath	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 heath	amod
9	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 nothing	case
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 heath	nmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 nothing	nmod
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 circle	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 circle	det
16	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heath	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 trees	case
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 circle	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sat	punct
20	under	under	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 sat	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sat	nsubj
23	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 sat	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 considering	punct
26	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	_	27 considering	advmod
27	considering	consider	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 sat	advcl
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 fate	nmod:poss
29	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 considering	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 considering	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 considering	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	soldier		a great heath with nothing but a circle of trees		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to heath=Initial_Location
2	sit down	past	soldier				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under which=Location
3	consider	gerund	soldier not said here	soldier's fate		sorrowfully property	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent fate=Attribute
4	fate		soldier				nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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