Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 13

The Dwarf, however, enchanted him, and it happened to him as it had to his Brother: he came to a defile where he could move neither forward nor backward.

Who acts: Dwarf, it, Prince · What happens: enchant, happen, have, come, move · To what, where: Prince, defile

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dwarf, it, Prince), 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	2 Dwarf	det
2	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 enchanted	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Dwarf	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 enchanted	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 enchanted	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 happened	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 happened	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 happened	nsubj
11	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 enchanted	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 happened	obl
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 had	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 happened	advcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 Brother	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 Brother	nmod:poss
19	Brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 enchanted	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 defile	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 defile	det
25	defile	defile	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 move	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 move	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 move	aux
29	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 defile	acl:relcl
30	neither	neither	ADV	_	29 move	advmod
31	forward	forward	ADV	_	29 move	advmod
32	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	33 backward	cc
33	backward	backward	ADV	_	31 forward	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 enchanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	enchant	past	the Dwarf	Prince			however property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
2	happen	past	it		Prince			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	Dwarf				to Prince's Brother	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	Prince			a defile		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to defile=Initial_Location
5	move	could	Prince				forward, neither property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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