Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 52

By and by, when they were alone in the wood, the Huntsman seemed so sad that the Prince asked him what ailed him.

Who acts: war, Huntsman, Prince · What happens: be, seem, ask, ail · To what, where: Huntsman · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (war, Huntsman, 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	By	by	ADP	_	11 wood	case
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 by	cc
3	by	by	ADP	_	1 By	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wood	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 wood	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wood	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wood	cop
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 were	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 wood	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wood	det
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seemed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wood	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Huntsman	det
14	Huntsman	Huntsman	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 seemed	nsubj
15	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 sad	advmod
17	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 seemed	xcomp
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 asked	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Prince	det
20	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 asked	nsubj
21	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sad	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 asked	iobj
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 ailed	nsubj
24	ailed	ail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 asked	ccomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ailed	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	war			by the wood	tree rules
2	seem	past	the Huntsman			sad property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	the Prince		Huntsman		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	ail	past		Huntsman			vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient he=Experiencer

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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