Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 3

He sought a path out of the forest but could not find one, and presently he saw an old woman, with a nodding head, who came up to him. "

Who acts: King, nodding head · What happens: seek, not find, see, come up · To what, where: path, forest, one, old woman, 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 (King, nodding head), 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 sought	nsubj
2	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 path	det
4	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sought	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 forest	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sought	obl
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 find	cc
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 find	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 find	advmod
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sought	conj
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 find	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 saw	cc
16	presently	presently	ADV	_	18 saw	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sought	conj
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 woman	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 head	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 head	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 head	det
25	nodding	nodding	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 head	compound
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 head	conj
30	up	up	ADV	_	29 came	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 came	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sought	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seek	past	King	a path		the forest		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent path=Theme out forest=Location
2	not find	could	King not said here	one				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
3	see	past	King	a old woman			with a nodding head; presently property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
4	come up	past	a nodding head		King			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location

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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