Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 69

When he came to the gate the guards refused him admittance, and told him he was not the person expected, and so he had to return homeward.

Who acts: kingdom, guards · What happens: come, refuse, tell, not be, expect, have · To what, where: gate, kingdom, person, homeward · 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 refused	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 gate	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gate	det
6	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 guards	det
8	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 refused	nsubj
9	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 refused	obj
11	admittance	admittance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 refused	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 refused	parataxis
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 person	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 person	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 person	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 person	det
20	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	ccomp
21	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 person	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 had	cc
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 had	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 told	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 return	mark
28	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 had	xcomp
29	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 return	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	kingdom			the gate	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location
2	refuse	past	the guards	kingdom			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past			kingdom		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	not is a	past	kingdom	the person			tree rules
5	expect	participle		the person not said here			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	have	past	kingdom				tree rules
7	return	to-infinitive	kingdom not said here	homeward			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=Theme

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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