Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 18

One day soon after, when the King was gone out hunting, she took the little shirts and went into the forest, and the cotton showed her the path.

Who acts: woman, cotton · What happens: go out, hunt, take, go, show · To what, where: King, little shirts, forest, path, woman

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 (woman, cotton), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gone	obl:unmarked
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 day	advmod
4	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 gone	mark
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gone	punct
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 gone	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 gone	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	aux:pass
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 gone	compound:prt
12	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 gone	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shirts	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 shirts	amod
18	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 took	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 went	cc
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	conj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 forest	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 forest	det
23	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 showed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 showed	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cotton	det
27	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 showed	nsubj
28	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	conj
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 showed	iobj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 path	det
31	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 showed	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	go out	past · passive		the King			day	tree rules
2	hunt	gerund						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take	past	woman	the little shirts				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme
4	go	past	woman not said here			the forest		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
5	show	past	the cotton	the path	woman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient path=Topic

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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