Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 66
So he rode away, and when he came in front of the castle and saw the fine golden road he thought it would be a shame to ride thereon, and so he turned to the left hand and rode up out of the road.
Who acts: kingdom, castle · What happens: ride away, come, see, think, be, ride · To what, where: front, fine golden road, shame, left hand, road · 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 (kingdom, castle), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 rode | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 rode | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 came | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 front | case |
| 11 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 castle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 castle | det |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 front | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 road | det |
| 18 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 road | amod |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 road | amod |
| 20 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 thought | nsubj |
| 22 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 road | acl:relcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 shame | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 shame | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 shame | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 shame | det |
| 27 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thought | ccomp |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 ride | mark |
| 29 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 shame | acl |
| 30 | thereon | thereon | ADV | _ | 29 ride | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 turned | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 turned | cc |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 turned | advmod |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 turned | nsubj |
| 35 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | parataxis |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 hand | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 hand | det |
| 38 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 hand | amod |
| 39 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 turned | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 rode | cc |
| 41 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 turned | conj |
| 42 | up | up | ADP | _ | 41 rode | compound:prt |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 46 road | case |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 road | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 road | det |
| 46 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 rode | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride away | past | kingdom | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | past | kingdom | front of the castle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | past | kingdom not said here | the fine golden road | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | kingdom | the fine golden road not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot road=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | would | castle | a shame | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | ride | to-infinitive | kingdom not said here | thereon property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | turn | past | kingdom | the left hand | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to hand=Trajectory | ||||
| 8 | ride up | past | kingdom not said here | the road | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out road=Trajectory |
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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