Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 59
A short time afterward three wagons laden with gold and precious stones came to the King's palace for his youngest Son.
Who acts: three wagons · What happens: lade, come · To what, where: three wagons, palace
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 (three wagons), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 5 three | advmod |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 wagons | nummod |
| 6 | wagons | wagon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 came | nsubj |
| 7 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 wagons | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 gold | case |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laden | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stones | cc |
| 11 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stones | amod |
| 12 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gold | conj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 palace | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 King | case |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 Son | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 Son | nmod:poss |
| 21 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 Son | amod |
| 22 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 palace | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lade | participle | three wagons not said here | with gold and precious stones | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | three wagons | the King's palace for King's youngest Son | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=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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