Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 68
Soon afterward the second Prince also set out, and he, likewise, when he came to the golden road and his horse set its forefeet upon it, thought it would be a pity to travel upon it, so he turned aside to the right hand and went up.
Who acts: kingdom, horse · What happens: set out, come, set, think, be, travel · To what, where: golden road, forefeet, pity, right hand · 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, horse), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 set | advmod |
| 2 | afterward | afterward | ADP | _ | 5 Prince | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 Prince | amod |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 set | obl |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 set | advmod |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 set | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 he | punct |
| 13 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 came | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 set | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 road | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 road | det |
| 20 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 road | amod |
| 21 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 set | cc |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 horse | nmod:poss |
| 24 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 set | nsubj |
| 25 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 set | conj |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 forefeet | nmod:poss |
| 27 | forefeet | forefoot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 set | obj |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 set | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 thought | punct |
| 31 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 set | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 pity | nsubj |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 pity | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 pity | cop |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 pity | det |
| 36 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 thought | ccomp |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 travel | mark |
| 38 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 pity | acl |
| 39 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 travel | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 turned | punct |
| 42 | so | so | ADV | _ | 44 turned | advmod |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 turned | nsubj |
| 44 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 set | parataxis |
| 45 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 44 turned | advmod |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 hand | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 hand | det |
| 48 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 hand | amod |
| 49 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 turned | obl |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 went | cc |
| 51 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 turned | conj |
| 52 | up | up | ADP | _ | 51 went | compound:prt |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | afterward the second Prince; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | kingdom | the golden road | likewise property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to road=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | set | past | kingdom's horse | horse's forefeet | upon person | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent forefoot=Theme upon it=Destination | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a | would | horse | a pity | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | travel | to-infinitive | upon person | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Trajectory | |||||
| 7 | turn | past | kingdom | the right hand | aside property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to hand=Trajectory | |||
| 8 | go up | past | kingdom not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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