Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 125
He escaped with his life, but the thorns into which he fell pierced his eyes.
Who acts: son · What happens: escape, pierce · To what, where: thorns, son
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 escaped | nsubj |
| 2 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 life | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 life | nmod:poss |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 escaped | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thorns | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 thorns | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thorns | det |
| 9 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 escaped | obl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 pierced | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pierced | nsubj |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pierced | aux:pass |
| 14 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 thorns | acl:relcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pierced | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 escaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | past | son | the thorns | with son's life | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | pierce | past · passive | son | the thorns | tree rules |
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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