Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 58
To this the Huntsman readily assented, for he felt unable to shoot the Prince, and after they had exchanged their clothing the Huntsman returned home, and the Prince went deeper into the wood.
Who acts: Huntsman, Prince · What happens: assent, feel, shoot, exchange, return, go · To what, where: Prince, war, wood
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 (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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 Huntsman | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Huntsman | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Huntsman | det |
| 4 | Huntsman | Huntsman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 assented | obl |
| 5 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 6 assented | advmod |
| 6 | assented | assent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 felt | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 felt | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 assented | conj |
| 11 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 felt | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 shoot | mark |
| 13 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 unable | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Prince | det |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 shoot | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 exchanged | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 exchanged | cc |
| 18 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 21 exchanged | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 exchanged | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 exchanged | aux |
| 21 | exchanged | exchange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 assented | conj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 clothing | nmod:poss |
| 23 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 exchanged | obj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Huntsman | det |
| 25 | Huntsman | Huntsman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 returned | nsubj |
| 26 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 exchanged | parataxis |
| 27 | home | home | ADV | _ | 26 returned | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 went | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 went | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Prince | det |
| 31 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 went | nsubj |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 assented | conj |
| 33 | deeper | deep | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 went | advmod |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 wood | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 wood | det |
| 36 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 went | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 assented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assent | participle | to the Huntsman; readily property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | feel | past | Huntsman | unable property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | shoot | to-infinitive | Huntsman not said here | the Prince | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | ||||
| 4 | exchange | past · perfect · passive | war | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | return | past | the Huntsman | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go | past | the Prince | the wood | deep property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_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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