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Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 33

When the King and his huntsmen saw him again, the Fawn with the golden necklace, they followed him, close, but he was too nimble and quick for them.

Who acts: King, huntsmen · What happens: see, follow, be · To what, where: hunt, King

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, huntsmen), 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

advmoddetnsubjccnmod:possconjobjadvmodpunctdetoblcasedetamodnmodpunctnsubjconjobjpunctxcomppunctccnsubjcopadvmodconjccconjcaseoblpunctrootWhenADVtheDETKingPROPNandCCONJhisPRONhuntsmenNOUNsawVERBhimPRONagainADV,PUNCTtheDETFawnNOUNwithADPtheDETgoldenADJnecklaceNOUN,PUNCTtheyPRONfollowedVERBhimPRON,PUNCTcloseADJ,PUNCTbutCCONJhePRONwasAUXtooADVnimbleADJandCCONJquickADJforADPthemPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int7 sawadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Kingdet
3KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing7 sawnsubj
4andandCCONJ_6 huntsmencc
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 huntsmennmod:poss
6huntsmenhuntsmanNOUNNumber=Plur3 Kingconj
7sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 sawobj
9againagainADV_7 sawadvmod
10,,PUNCT_12 Fawnpunct
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 Fawndet
12FawnfawnNOUNNumber=Sing7 sawobl
13withwithADP_16 necklacecase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 necklacedet
15goldengoldenADJDegree=Pos16 necklaceamod
16necklacenecklaceNOUNNumber=Sing12 Fawnnmod
17,,PUNCT_19 followedpunct
18theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs19 followednsubj
19followedfollowVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 sawconj
20himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 followedobj
21,,PUNCT_22 closepunct
22closecloseADJDegree=Pos19 followedxcomp
23,,PUNCT_28 nimblepunct
24butbutCCONJ_28 nimblecc
25hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 nimblensubj
26wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 nimblecop
27tootooADV_28 nimbleadvmod
28nimblenimbleADJDegree=Pos7 sawconj
29andandCCONJ_30 quickcc
30quickquickADJDegree=Pos28 nimbleconj
31forforADP_32 themcase
32themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs28 nimbleobl
33..PUNCT_7 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastthe King and King's huntsmenhuntagainthe Fawn with the golden necklace oblvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2followpasthuntsmen = huntsmanKingclose propertyvn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3ispastKingfor huntsmen = huntsman; nimble propertytree rules
4beKing not said heretree rules

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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