Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 75
As soon as they came on shore, it happened just as the Crow had foretold, and an immense fox-red horse sprang up. "
Who acts: misfortunes, it, immense red horse · What happens: come, happen, foretell, spring up · To what, where: shore, Crow
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 (misfortunes, it, immense red horse), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 came | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 shore | case |
| 7 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 happened | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 happened | nsubj |
| 10 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 foretold | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 foretold | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Crow | det |
| 14 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 foretold | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 foretold | aux |
| 16 | foretold | foretell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 happened | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sprang | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sprang | cc |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 horse | det |
| 20 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 horse | amod |
| 21 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 red | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 fox | punct |
| 23 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 horse | amod |
| 24 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sprang | nsubj |
| 25 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 sprang | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | misfortunes = misfortune | shore | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location | |||
| 2 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | foretell | past · perfect · passive | the Crow | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | spring up | past | a immense red horse | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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