Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 111
They agreed that until that time he should come to her every evening, for the old woman came by day.
Who acts: man, time · What happens: agree, come · To what, where: that, RAPUNZEL
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 (man, time), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 agreed | obj |
| 4 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | nsubj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 agreed | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 come | obl |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 evening | det |
| 13 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 woman | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 woman | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 woman | amod |
| 18 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 agreed | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 day | case |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | man | that | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent that=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come not said to happen | should | that time | RAPUNZEL | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | come | past | man not said here | day | for the old woman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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