Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 104
If that is the ladder by which one mounts, I will for once try my fortune," said he, and the next day, when it began to grow dark, he went to the tower and cried.
Who acts: that, one, I, son, fortune · What happens: be, mount, try, say, begin, grow · To what, where: ladder, fortune, tower · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, one, I, son), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 ladder | mark |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 ladder | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ladder | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ladder | det |
| 5 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 try | advcl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 mounts | obl |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mounts | nsubj |
| 9 | mounts | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ladder | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ladder | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 try | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 try | aux |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 once | case |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 try | obl |
| 15 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 try | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 try | parataxis |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 day | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 day | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 day | det |
| 25 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 day | amod |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 try | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 began | punct |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 began | advmod |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 began | nsubj |
| 30 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 day | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 grow | mark |
| 32 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 began | xcomp |
| 33 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 grow | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 went | punct |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 went | nsubj |
| 36 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 try | parataxis |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 tower | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 tower | det |
| 39 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 went | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 cried | cc |
| 41 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 went | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | that | the ladder | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mount | present | one | by the ladder | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by which=Destination | ||||
| 3 | try | future | I | my fortune | day | tree rules | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | begin in a quote | past | fortune | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | grow in a quote | to-infinitive | fortune not said here | dark property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | go in a quote | past | son | the tower | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tower=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | son not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP 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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