Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 22
The following day the King went to visit his children, but he found only the Maiden. "
Who acts: King · What happens: follow, go, visit, find · To what, where: children, Maiden
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 (King), 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 visit | mark |
| 8 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 children | nmod:poss |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 visit | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 Maiden | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Maiden | det |
| 17 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | go | past | the King | day | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | visit | to-infinitive | the King not said here | King's children | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | find | past | King | the Maiden | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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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