Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 67

But as he came up to the door the guards told him he was not the right person, and he must ride back again.

Who acts: kingdom, guards · What happens: come up, tell, not be, ride back · To what, where: door, kingdom, right person · 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, guards), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	advcl
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 guards	det
10	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 person	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 person	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 person	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 person	det
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 person	amod
18	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ride	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ride	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ride	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 ride	aux
23	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 told	conj
24	back	back	ADV	_	23 ride	advmod
25	again	again	ADV	_	23 ride	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	come up	past	kingdom			the door		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	the guards		kingdom			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	not is a	past	kingdom	the right person				tree rules
4	ride back	must	kingdom				again	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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