Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 7
After he had ridden a long way he met a Dwarf on the road, who asked him, "Whither away so quickly?"
Who acts: King, road · What happens: ride, meet, ask · To what, where: long way, Dwarf, road, King
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 (King, road), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 ridden | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ridden | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ridden | aux |
| 4 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ridden | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 met | nsubj |
| 9 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Dwarf | det |
| 11 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 road | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 road | det |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 asked | nsubj |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 road | acl:relcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asked | iobj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 away | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 away | punct |
| 21 | Whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 away | advmod |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 ridden | advmod |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 quickly | advmod |
| 24 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 ridden | advmod |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 ridden | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ridden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past · perfect | King | a long way | away, quickly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | |||
| 2 | meet | past | King | a Dwarf | the road | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the road | King | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/7/