Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 74
It was, however, surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to go into it because it belonged to an enchantress, who had great power and was dreaded by all the world.
Who acts: high wall, one, garden, enchantress, world · What happens: surround, dare, go, belong, have, dread · To what, where: garden, great power
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 (high wall, one, garden, enchantress), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 surrounded | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 surrounded | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 wall | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wall | det |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wall | amod |
| 10 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 surrounded | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dared | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dared | cc |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dared | nsubj |
| 15 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 surrounded | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 dared | xcomp |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 go | obl |
| 20 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 belonged | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 belonged | nsubj |
| 22 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dared | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 enchantress | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 enchantress | det |
| 25 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 belonged | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 had | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 had | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 enchantress | acl:relcl |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 power | amod |
| 30 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 had | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 dreaded | cc |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 dreaded | aux:pass |
| 33 | dreaded | dread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 had | conj |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 world | case |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 world | det:predet |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 world | det |
| 37 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 dreaded | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 surrounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | past · passive | a high wall | garden | however property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | dare | past | no one | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | no one not said here | garden | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | belong | past | garden | to a enchantress | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | past | a enchantress | great power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 6 | dread | past · passive | all world | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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