Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 126

Then he wandered quite blind about the forest, ate nothing but roots and berries, and did nothing but lament and weep over the loss of his dearest wife.

Who acts: son · What happens: wander, eat, do · To what, where: nothing, loss

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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 wandered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wandered	nsubj
3	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 blind	advmod
5	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wandered	xcomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blind	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ate	punct
10	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wandered	conj
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 ate	obj
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 roots	cc
13	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 nothing	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 berries	cc
15	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 roots	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 did	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 did	cc
18	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wandered	conj
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 did	obj
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 lament	cc
21	lament	lament	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 nothing	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 weep	cc
23	weep	weep	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 nothing	conj
24	over	over	ADP	_	26 loss	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 loss	det
26	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 did	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 wife	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 wife	nmod:poss
29	dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 wife	amod
30	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 loss	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	son			then	blind property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	past	son not said here	nothing				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	do	past	son not said here	nothing	the loss of son's dearest wife			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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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