Grimm's Fairy Stories, Briar Rose, sentence 25

He told, too, how he had heard from his grandfather that many, many princes had come, and had tried to break through the thicket, but had stuck fast and died.

Who acts: palace, many many princes · What happens: tell, hear, come, try, break, stick · To what, where: thicket · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace, many many princes), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 too	punct
4	too	too	ADV	_	2 told	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 heard	punct
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 heard	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heard	aux
9	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 grandfather	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 grandfather	nmod:poss
12	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 come	mark
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 princes	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 many	punct
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 princes	amod
17	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 come	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 heard	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tried	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tried	cc
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 tried	aux
23	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 break	mark
25	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 tried	xcomp
26	through	through	ADP	_	28 thicket	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 thicket	det
28	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 break	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stuck	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 stuck	cc
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 stuck	aux
32	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	parataxis
33	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 stuck	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 died	cc
35	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 stuck	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	palace			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past · perfect	palace		from palace's grandfather	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from grandfather=Source
3	come	past · perfect	many many princes			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	try	past · perfect	palace not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	break not said to happen	to-infinitive	palace not said here	the thicket		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through thicket=Location
6	stick	past · perfect			fast property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	die	past				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «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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