Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 124
The King's son was beside himself with pain, and in his despair he leapt down from the tower.
Who acts: son · What happens: be, leapt down, despair · To what, where: despair
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pain | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pain | cop |
| 6 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 7 himself | case |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 was | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 pain | case |
| 9 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 leapt | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 leapt | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 despair | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 despair | nmod:poss |
| 14 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leapt | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 leapt | nsubj |
| 16 | leapt | leapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pain | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 leapt | advmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 tower | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tower | det |
| 20 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leapt | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King's son | with pain | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leapt down | past | son | son's despair | from the tower; down property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | despair | son | nom despair «state intransitive»: poss=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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