Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 2

But when evening approached he stopped, and looking around him perceived that he had lost himself.

Who acts: evening, King, looking · What happens: approach, stop, look, perceive, lose · To what, where: King

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 (evening, King, looking), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 stopped	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 approached	advmod
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 approached	nsubj
4	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stopped	advcl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stopped	nsubj
6	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 perceived	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 perceived	cc
9	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 perceived	csubj
10	around	around	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 looking	obl
12	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stopped	advcl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 lost	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lost	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lost	aux
16	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 perceived	ccomp
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 lost	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	approach	past	evening			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	past	King			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	look	gerund			around King	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around he=Theme
4	perceive	past	looking			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	lose	past · perfect	King	King		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/19/2/