Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 30
Then they sailed over the wide sea, and sailed away until they came to the city where dwelt the daughter of the King of the Golden Palace.
Who acts: things · What happens: sail, sail away, come, dwell · To what, where: wide sea, city, daughter
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sailed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sailed | nsubj |
| 3 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 6 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sea | amod |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sailed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sailed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sailed | cc |
| 10 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sailed | conj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 sailed | advmod |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 14 came | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sailed | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 city | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 city | det |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 dwelt | advmod |
| 19 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 city | acl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 daughter | det |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dwelt | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 King | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 King | det |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 daughter | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Palace | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Palace | det |
| 27 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Palace | amod |
| 28 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 King | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | things = thing | the wide sea | then | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over sea=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | sail away | past | things = thing not said here | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | past | things = thing | the city | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | dwell | participle | the daughter of the King of the Golden Palace | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme daughter=Location |
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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